How To Really Run A City

One City’s Answer to Tribalism

Denver, Colorado Mayor Mike Johnston talks about coming together in divided times with former Philly Mayor Michael Nutter and former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed

By J.P. Romney
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Ali Velshi Asks if Medicaid Recipients Can Just Replace Farm Workers

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member covers how Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins believes immigrant farm workers can be replaced by Medicaid recipients

By Ali Velshi
2025 Rad Awards

Cristina Martínez

The owner of South Philly Barbacoa and Casa Mexico has earned the highest honors for chefs in America. But that’s just the start of her most important work

By Katherine Rapin

International Students Strengthen America

A longtime university president calls upon citizens to welcome students from around the world

By Elaine Maimon

Working on the Edge

Immigrant-owned small businesses help power Philadelphia. But tariffs — and deportations — could devastate many of them

By Cristian Salazar
Integrity Icon 2025

Rorng Sorn, Mental Health Connector

A Cambodian refugee, Sorn helps bring psychological services to immigrant communities who need it the most

By Lauren McCutcheon
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The Philadelphians Video Murals

Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib showcase new and earlier immigrant experiences in Philadelphia with their newest moving visual art exhibition in LOVE Park, launching Wednesday.

By Cara Kishter
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Ali Velshi — Do We Now Live in a Surveillance State?

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member talks with Caitlin Dickerson and Petra Molnar about the growing surveillance state and how big-donor tech companies are threatening due process

By Ali Velshi
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Ali Velshi On The Red Scare and MAGA

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member draws a comparison between the consequences of an infamous movement in the 1950s and today's threat to our freedoms

By Ali Velshi

“It’s Our Market.”

Amid threats to undocumented workers and from outside developers, lifelong South Philadelphian Michelle Angela Ortiz doubles down on a public art project honoring the diverse stories of the S. 9th Street Market

By Cristian Salazar