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"They just ruined it." Inside the epic collapse of the 200-year-old museum.

The 2026 midterms may mean the end of Pennsylvania's split legislature. If so, you'll see effects on affordability, election reform, marijuana and more. Here's the breakdown.

How H. Chase Lenfest and an expanding circle of Philly-based supporters are leveraging smart partnerships to bring prosperity to Hunting Park and East Tioga

With the release of Nathan Fielder's "You Can See Everything," the spotlight has landed back on Elizabeth Holmes. A 2016 presentation to the American Association for Clinical Chemistry offers a very different look at the Theranos CEO.

From voter intimidation to malfunctioning machines to polls that open too late, we take a dive into what's legal, what's not legal, and what you can do about it in this special interview edition. You can RSVP to the October 20th Election Protection & De-Escalation Training being put on by The Philadelphia Citizen and Changing the Conversation here.

The Trump administration is saying the high price of diesel (and all the inflated costs that go with it), is because Ukraine is hitting Russian energy facilities. Ali Velshi shows that simply is not true.

PETA has asked Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker to put the kibosh on the poisoning of those vile four-legged varmints and take a wholly different approach.

Matt Mahan, the wildly popular mayor of San Jose, California, was recently reelected with a whopping 87 percent of the vote. How do you get to what Citizen Co-founder Larry Platt  jokingly called (echoing The Daily Show host Jon Stewart) "Vladimir Putin numbers?" As Mahan laid out on the latest episode of How To Really Run A City, hosted by former Mayors Michael Nutter of Philadelphia and Kasim Reed of Atlanta, a major part of his success has been zeroing in on five main policy goals: "Until we become the safest big city in the country, end unsheltered homelessness, clean up our neighborhoods, and make it easier to start a business and build housing in our city," Mahan said, "the rest of it is kind of a moot point." Before running for office, Mahan built and ran startups. "Tell us," Reed prompted, "how close running a city is to the startups you built." "I would say they're very, very similar," Mahan replied. "After a decade of building two startups, that was really what I knew — put together a small, smart team that's intensely mission driven." Under Mahan, San Jose has seen a 100 percent solve rate for murders — compared to the national average of 66 percent — and has become one of the 15 cities participating in a new housing initiative from Bloomberg Philanthropies and Accelerator For America, a partner on the podcast. "I'm really excited about this," Mahan told the hosts. "Bloomberg Philanthropies does amazing things for mayors. They don't just bury you in papers and tell you what to do, they actually sit down with you, fund some additional staff capacity and help you overhaul the permitting process." Mahan has shared his success in narrowing priorities and using technology to make city government more efficient for constituents in the nonprofit Results for America's new book Do What Works: Smarter Government, Better Results.  Join us for an in-depth discussion with one of the most effective and popular mayors in the country right now.  Remember to subscribe to the podcast to keep up on all the latest episodes. And watch for new episodes on YouTube and Piksel+ as they become available. As cities go, so goes the nation!

On this Citizen segment of Evening WURDs, Dr. James Peterson invites onto the show Nafees Norris, named a recent Citizen of the Week. Norris was the first Black student accepted into Thomas Jefferson University's Biopharmaceutical Engineering Master's Program. After graduation he had a choice: continue in the biotech industry or start his own venture geared towards exposing young people — particularly those underrepresented in STEM fields — to his specialty.

On this episode of Ideas We Should Steal, ten states have legalized this energy- and money-saving home technology. Should PA become the first swing state to do so?

A read of our City's 2,000-page constitution reveals an accidental anthropology of the weird, outdated and pointless

A veteran movie critic previews the coming 10-day, three-venue movie extravaganza as "one of the richest festivals in recent memory"

According to an explosive report from consumer protection advocates, Walmart filed several patents that would aid personalized surge pricing (electronic shelf labels) by tracking customers in stores and online through their cell phones. Ali Velshi breaks it down.

The fall of Larry Krasner has produced a hero for our times. Meantime, recent headlines concerning another judge? Not so heroic.

What do you do if you want to get workers to stop cutting down a tree? If you're one citizen in West Philly, you block their way with your body.