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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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South Seaside Park in August 2014. (Justin Auciello for WHYY)
Down the Shore
Politics & Policy

N.J. legislator proposes fines for beachgoers who don’t secure umbrellas

A new bill in the New Jersey legislature sets fines for beachgoers who don't properly secure beach umbrellas and vendors that fail to warn the public about the product's risks

6 years ago

(Chuck Snyder for WHYY)
Down the Shore
Community

Van Drew supports Jersey Shore town in FEMA storm repayment dispute

A Jersey Shore town still recovering from Superstorm Sandy is receiving the help of a congressman in its battle with the FEMA over fund repayment.

6 years ago

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, left, speaks during a roundtable talks on sanctuary cities hosted by President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, in Washington, Tuesday, March 20, 2018. Other attendees are, from back center left, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan and Mary Ann Mendoza. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Courts & Law

Court sides with Trump in ‘sanctuary cities’ grant fight

The Trump administration can withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants to force states to cooperate with U.S. immigration enforcement

6 years ago


Karina Shumate, 21, a college student, filled out a voter registration form in Richardson, Texas on Jan. 18. One big registration effort this year has drawn controversy among elections officials. (LM Otero/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. challenges colleges to get students enrolled to vote

The Department of State is urging schools to join a competition to see who can get the most students on the rolls for November’s election.

6 years ago

(Courtesy of Roni Green/Facebook)
Politics & Policy

Democrat Roni Green wins state House special election for Johnson-Harrell’s seat in West Philly

A West Philadelphia Democrat who has worked most recently as a union business agent won a special election Tuesday to fill a vacant seat in the Pa. House.

6 years ago

Wind-blown clumps of fire-suppression foam hang in the air outside of hangar 706 while the tail of a massive C-5M Super Galaxy can be seen inside the hangar at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (U.S. Air Force photo/Greg L. Davis)
Health

Two more wells show possible PFAS contamination near Dover Air Force Base

Preliminary results show elevated levels of the so-called “forever chemicals” PFOS and PFOA near the installation in Delaware.

6 years ago

Roberto Valdes has placed his queerness in one box and his Blackness in the other. But since learning the term intersectionality and moving to Philadelphia, the young attorney is embracing every part of who he is. (Courtesy of Roberto Valdes)
Lifestyle

I’m a queer man of color. Here’s how intersectionality impacts me.

Roberto Valdes, a queer man of color, writes about coming to know the term intersectionality and how it taught him to fully love and express himself.

6 years ago

House Majority Whip, Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., greets Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden as he endorses him in North Charleston, S.C., Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Politics & Policy

Biden nabs Clyburn endorsement before South Carolina primary

The backing could provide a much-needed boost for the former vice president heading into South Carolina's primary.

6 years ago

Catholic devotees have ash sprinkled on their heads during Ash Wednesday rites Feb. 26, 2020 in Paranaque, metropolitan Manila, Philippines. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines has recommended sprinkling ash on the head of devotees instead of using it to mark foreheads with a cross to avoid physical contact and fight the spread of the new coronavirus in the Lenten period in places of worship. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Health

Caution, cancellations mark Ash Wednesday in time of virus

In the Philippines priests sprinkled ashes on the heads of the faithful to avoid physical contact.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump, and first lady Melania Trump, step off Air Force One upon arrival, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Trump is returning from India.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Health

Trump to detail U.S. coronavirus efforts, Schumer seeks $8.5B

Trump and members of the administration have been sending mixed messages about the virus.

6 years ago

Trees cut on a Susquehanna County property in March 2016 to make way for the proposed Constitution Pipeline. The company has said it will fight a FERC order upholding New York State’s denial of a permit for the project. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Constitution Pipeline project ends as builder cites ‘diminished’ return on investment

A pipeline builder has dropped a controversial project that would have routed fracked natural gas from Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale into New York.

6 years ago

Fredy Garcia Morales and his mom Margarita talk to his sisters on the phone while sitting in the King Street Ministry Center in Chambersburg, Pa. (Jeffrey Stockbridge for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Speaking Mam in MAGA country: Immigration, education and the teenage boy in the middle

Where low-wage immigrant labor undergirds the local economy, stress is put on other institutions — especially public schools, which face a mandate to educate all.

6 years ago

Listen 7:21
National Coalition of 100 Black Women President Virginia Harris visited Delaware chapter members to discuss disparities in the health care system. (Zoë Read/WHYY)
Community

National Coalition of 100 Black Women president visits Del. to discuss access to health care

Members of the Delaware chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women are uniting to address health care disparities among Black women.

6 years ago

Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., talk before a Democratic presidential primary debate, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Politics & Policy

Debate takeaways: Bernie bruised but not broken

Democrats held their final debate before the South Carolina presidential primary and the critical Super Tuesday contests that follow three days later.

6 years ago

Attorney General Josh Shapiro (Anthony Pezzotti/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Courts & Law
Spotlight PA

Protesters call on Pennsylvania AG to ‘show mercy’ and commute more life sentences

The protests outside Shapiro’s offices were organized by several reform organizations including the Coalition to Abolish Death by Incarceration.

6 years ago

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