Isaac Saul Wants To UnTangle Your News

The South Philly journalist reaches 400,000 readers everyday with Tangle’s blend of media roundup, analysis and self-reflection. His goal? To help Americans see past their own biases

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
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Ali Velshi Explains Why Conspiracists Are Turning On Trump

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member dissects the MAGA monster Trump created and how it's turned on him in the wake of the Epstein Files debacle

By Ali Velshi
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The Long Fight to Cancel Public Broadcasting

Trump and the GOP finished the job Nixon started, but history teaches the value of fair, independent journalism

By David M. Stone
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Chuck Stone, Citizen of the World

The Daily News’ first Black columnist, a civic giant, won a posthumous Pulitzer citation this week. A Philly writer remembers his lifesaving work — and his kindness

By Thomas Devaney

Hey Philly, Let’s Tell Bezos to Suck It

The Citizen is intensely hyperlocal. But attacks on Enlightenment values know no borders. Here, a way to stand against media surrender and get clearer on national affairs without regard to ideology

By Larry Platt
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Ali Velshi on Burying Ukrainian Manuscripts to Keep them from Russian Hands

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with author and Journalist Yaroslav Trofimov to discuss how Ukrainian literature is preserving the nation's history — and its future

By Ali Velshi
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Ali Velshi Asks Can Meta Ever Be Trusted?

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member speaks with two third-party fact-checkers formerly working with Meta about the real threats facing social media in this new era.

By Ali Velshi
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Velshi Guest Host Charles Coleman Jr. and Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Free Press

Guest host Charles Coleman Jr. sits down with 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones to discuss the threat the new administration represents to a free press — and the public

By Ali Velshi

Suck it Musk?

Why The Citizen is not abandoning X despite — actually, because of — the divisiveness and disinformation that abounds

By Olivia Kram

Choose Democracy

The 2024 election was the beginning, not the end, of saving our democracy. Here's what else you can do

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy