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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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 Andy Karl as Rocky in the new Broadway musical version of the film, which opened Thursday night. (Photograph courtesy of Matthew Murphy)
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Arts & Entertainment

Review: Broadway’s ‘Rocky,’ but still Philly’s fighter

Can a bum from the neighborhood ever be anything more? You sense the underlying sadness right away. It gave the original “Ro ...

13 years ago

 Drucie McDaniel (left) and Maureen Torsney-Weir in Azuka Theatre's production of the new play,
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Arts & Entertainment

Review: A ‘Skin & Bone’ with plenty of meat

Down in the Florida panhandle, where the Old South still reigns, two sisters and their house rapidly decline. The ladies’ knees and ...

13 years ago

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Logan Resident Survey: What the neighborhood really needs

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St. Bonaventure condemned, but who will salvage its soul?

13 years ago

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CSX testifies on derailment, 25th Street Bridge

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March 13: Immediate SEPTA strike unlikely | Union wants new fire trucks | Salvaging St. Bonaventure | N3RD Street | Development coming to 13th & South

13 years ago

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Politics & Policy

Council bills focus on tax relief for homeowners, low-income workers

13 years ago

Smoking withdrawal changes brain network connectivity, Penn team finds

Less than a third of smokers are able to go a full year without a cigarette, even when they’re getting help from a nicotine pa ...

13 years ago

 Insulin-expressing cells (red) arising within the intestinal crypts (green) of a mouse that received three beta-cell 'reprogramming factors (Image courtesy of UPenn)

Penn scientists reprogram gut cells to produce insulin

Researchers are getting closer to figuring out how to transform gut cells into insulin powerhouses. The only cell in the body tha ...

13 years ago

Philly bridge where train derailed ‘sound,’ but CSX vows to heed safety concerns

A Philadelphia City Council committee demanded answers from railroad officials about a recent train derailment at a hearing Wednesday. ...

13 years ago

Barack Obama

Philly cop heralded by Obama in ’09 withdraws guilty plea on sex charges

In an unexpected turn of events, a former Philadelphia cop wants to withdraw his guilty plea and head to trial on charges that he forced ...

13 years ago

 The Tesla Model X at  the 2013 North American International Auto Show in Detroit,  (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

New Jersey bans Tesla’s direct to consumer sales

New Jersey motor vehicle officials have approved a new regulation that would require all new car dealers to obtain a franchise agreement ...

13 years ago

Pa. Dems offer $9 billion borrowing plan for pensions relief

Democrats in Pennsylvania’s Senate say borrowing $9 billion is the best way to address the state’s rising public pension debt ...

13 years ago

Small businesses in N.J. frustrated over wait for Sandy grants

Some small-business owners in New Jersey want the state to do a better job of providing grants to help them recover from Sandy. &n ...

13 years ago

 A display case of Sandy Koufax fan-fare is on display at the NMAJH exhibit, Chasing Dreams. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

A Yiddish take on the national pastime

The new exhibition at the National Museum of American Jewish History, “Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Becoming American,” featu ...

13 years ago

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