In this episode of Philadelphia Promise, Christine Speer Lejeune, editor-in-chief of Philadelphia magazine, sits down with author, political thinker and all-around Renaissance man Richard Vague.

In his new book, The Banker Who Made America, Vague shines a spotlight on Thomas Willing, a highly influential Philadelphian who leveraged the power of American banking to help the country win its independence.

Join us for a fascinating conversation about a nearly forgotten but extremely important Founding Father.

What if your primary care physician gave you a script for more time outdoors? Prescribe Outside, a program from CHOP, is doing just that. Writer Courtney DuChene visited just such a nature gathering with doctors, patients and a whole lot of kids.

On this episode of Gardening For Good, The Woodlands runs a volunteer-staffed program to restore flowers to cradle graves and build community in the process.

For more information on volunteering, visit this story on the web.

On this episode, Dr. James Peterson argues that at the root of the shootings and violence and poverty cycles that plague our society sits literacy--quietly creating an architecture of inequality

... starts with dehumanizing your enemies. Ali Velshi makes the case that Donald Trump's threats to destroy an entire country are much more than bluster.

In the final episode of this award-nominated essay, Tom McGrath asks what it would take to set Philly on the right path and protect the city from the whims of Washington D.C.

People aren't leaving cities. They're pulling into their own remote work spaces and eschewing the civic reasons they chose urban living in the first place.

The effects of Trump's cuts are broad and deep. In this essay, nominated for an NCRM award, Tom McGrath explains how Philadelphia got so hooked on federal assistance and what it means for our future.