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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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A masked federal employee protesting
Courts & Law

Judge who ordered fired federal workers to be reinstated now says ruling applies to 19 states and D.C.

New Jersey, 18 other states and the District of Columbia challenged the Trump administration's mass dismissals at more than a dozen agencies across the country.

6 months ago

Elon Musk speaks
Politics & Policy

Musk could be leaving D.C. after turbulent times at the president’s DOGE

Trump and Musk have both hinted that DOGE's work will end soon. But that was before Tuesday, when Wisconsin voters rejected Musk's pick for a state Supreme Court candidate.

6 months ago

Trump raising his first at a press conference
Politics & Policy

Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote U.S. manufacturing, risking inflation and trade wars

The new tariffs, coming on what Trump has named “Liberation Day,” are a bid to boost U.S. manufacturing and punish other countries for what he says are unfair trade practices.

6 months ago

A home in Germantown
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Uncertain future for blighted Philly properties once part of Germantown Settlement empire

The Philadelphia Housing Authority has committed to rehabbing and renting the properties, but an anti-blight nonprofit could end up with them instead.

6 months ago

Luke Tomczuk, a member of a research team at Temple University
Science

Philly study focuses on learning how to use public transit as path to independence for people with learning disabilities

Researchers at Temple University will look at the effectiveness of the Chance to Ride travel training program and recruit participants in Philly.

6 months ago

Listen 2:34
Group of Los Angeles students
Education

Studies show links between arts programs and positive academic outcomes, skills

Anecdotal evidence has shown arts-related classes lead to better grades.

6 months ago

Listen 1:57
outside Independence Hall
Politics & Policy

White House wants more funding to prep Philly’s Independence Hall for semiquincentennial

Stakeholders look forward to more funding for Independence Hall as America gets ready to celebrate its 250th anniversary after White House executive order.

6 months ago

Listen 1:03
Elon Musk presents a woman with an oversized check for $1 million
Courts & Law

Lawsuit claims Musk failed to make promised payments over 2024 petition signatures

The lawsuit claims the man received hourly pay for canvassing ahead of the November presidential election, but it says he wasn't fully paid for the petition referrals.

6 months ago

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner takes part in a news conference in Philadelphia, Monday, March 11, 2024.
Community

Philly district attorney’s office launches clean and green unit to tackle ‘short dumping’ and other quality of life crimes

The new unit will use high-tech surveillance to target people who dump trash on city streets and commit other quality-of-life crimes.

6 months ago

Cory Booker speaking at a podium
Politics & Policy

New Jersey’s U.S. Sen. Cory Booker sets a record, makes a marathon speech objecting to several Trump administration policies

Sen. Booker got help from fellow Democrats during his marathon, anti-Trump speech, the longest Senate speech in history.

6 months ago

Listen 1:04
Mike Carroll speaks
Community

Extra day added for Pa. drivers to get REAL ID before the May deadline. Majority of residents don’t have it yet

Pennsylvania travelers could be turned away from TSA checkpoints if they have not received their updated REAL ID by May 7.

6 months ago

Listen 0:58
pamphlets for the program
Community

Camden County launches Blue Envelope program to help communication between police and autistic drivers

The program, which informs police officers if a driver is autistic, was first implemented in the Garden State in Hunterdon County.

6 months ago

Listen 1:05
Luigi Mangione
Courts & Law

Federal prosecutors to seek death penalty for Penn graduate Luigi Mangione in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing

Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland real estate family, faces separate federal and state murder charges.

6 months ago

Sen. Cory Booker speaks during a hearing in Washington
Politics & Policy

Who is Cory Booker, the Democrat from New Jersey holding the Senate floor?

Booker played part in a 2018 bipartisan measure to overhaul federal sentencing laws passed after some Black leaders forged an alliance with Trump.

6 months ago

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks
Health

Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware join lawsuit against HHS federal cuts to health departments and programs

A lawsuit led by Democratic state attorneys general and governors seeks to stop the Trump administration from cutting grant money to local health programs.

6 months ago

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