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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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Republican judge tells the Republican Supreme Court judges: “Shut up”

  Today let’s celebrate the art of the smackdown. Here are three fresh examples. 1. It’s ...

12 years ago

 Fireside Room at the Commodore Barry Club (Michelle Barrett/ for NewsWorks)

Mt. Airy’s Commodore Barry Club faces financial woes

The Commodore Barry Club in Mt. Airy has been sent into survival mode after being hit with a substantial change in their building’s ...

12 years ago

2 arrested in protests over fatal Philadelphia fire

Two people were arrested Monday night after residents gathered outside a fire station to protest what they say was a delayed response to ...

12 years ago

 Jay R. Goldstein is chief executive officer, president and director of Valley Green Bank. (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

Northwest Philly’s Valley Green Bank sold for $76 million, will retain name

Valley Green Bank, which takes its name from the verdant land that runs through its home turf in Northwest Philadelphia, will merge next ...

12 years ago

 Camera training with Lajna Ima’illah (the women's auxiliary of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community) at Scribe Video Center while in production on 'Maidservants of Allah: Muslim Women in Perspective.' (Image courtesy of Lori Waselchuk)

Filming Philadelphia’s Muslim past and present

For many Muslims born to immigrant parents in this country, our first encounters with an indigenous American Muslim tradition a ...

12 years ago

 Maya Peterson posted this photo on Instagram along with hashtags:

How an Instagram photo ignited a debate over racial diversity and school tradition

At first glance, the photo looks almost harmless. There she stands, wearing a Yale sweatshirt and wielding a hockey stick, her cri ...

12 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘Deathtrap,’ timed for thrills

You can hear a lot of gasping at Bucks County Playhouse these nights, and not primarily because “Deathtrap” is at times an an ...

12 years ago

N.J. going to federal court to block seismic tests off coast

The Christie Administration is taking legal action to halt a federally approved seismic ocean survey that is scheduled to start this mont ...

12 years ago

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Northwest Philly’s Valley Green Bank sold for $76 million, will retain name

12 years ago

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Urban Planning

July 8: Preservation Tax Credit Saved | Cigarette Tax Still in Limbo | 30th St’s High Amtrak Ridership | Another Building Collapse | Philly’s Red Tape | Connecting the Circuit

12 years ago

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Urban Planning

Coincidence? Philly’s had fewer DUI arrests since ride-sharing apps arrived

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

SPOTTED: Pop-up spaces sprout, tree seats, Wistar reveal, and night owls

12 years ago

Sandy capriciously left some homes standing in Bay Point while sweeping others away. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Residents of tiny Bay Point ponder N.J. offer to buy Sandy-struck property

Some of the images from Superstorm Sandy’s devastation are indelible — boardwalks shredded into splinters, beached tankers, e ...

12 years ago

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 Two homes partially collapsed on Spruce St. in West Philadelphia. The occupants were away from home and escaped injury. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Partial collapse in West Philadelphia

A partial collapse of two rowhouses in West Philadelhia Monday left the homes sagging heavily toward the front and caused damage to an ad ...

12 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Latest pop-up garden offers cool retreat, refreshing drinks on South Street

A giant mulberry tree shades hammocks in the back of an 8,000-square-foot vacant lot on South Street in Philadelphia. Umbrellas protect w ...

12 years ago

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