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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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National Interest

Nothing tops a Paul Ryan whopper

The ’14 Conservative Political Action Conference featured the usual unhinged hijinks – Donald Trump mistakenly said that Jimm ...

13 years ago

 New SRC Chair Bill Green speaks as Gov. Tom Corbett and Farah Jimenez look on. (Kim Paynter/WHYY)
The Philadelphia Experiment

Philly Schools: It’s the principal of the thing

To paraphrase a saying that I heard once, “If you can bind up the strong leader, you can plunder the whole house.” That’s wh ...

13 years ago

Philly Parenting

On white privilege and Costco

I just watched this powerful video today. It brought back memories.  ...

13 years ago

 This Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, file photo shows a mock-up cover of Barbie on a 'Sports Illustrated' swimsuit issue at the Mattel booth at the American International Toy Fair in New York. A few weeks after her foray into the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, Barbie is entangled in controversy over her ties with the Girl Scouts. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

‘Be Anything’ Barbie patch little more than pink badge of commerce for Girl Scouts

It’s been years since my partner and I issued the Barbie Proclamation, but last week’s tempest amidst the Girl Scouts, Mattel ...

13 years ago

 Cherry Hill Mall (Alan Tu/WHYY)

Woman’s finger nearly severed in Cherry Hill parking lot fight

A dispute over a parking spot at a southern New Jersey mall ended when one woman bit and almost severed the finger of another woman. ...

13 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Northern Liberties to be remapped

13 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

March 10: Freight rail safety | Safety & vacancy | Slow BRT appeals | Free Library budget increase | 15th/Walnut redevelopment | Charming Camac

13 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

March 10-14: Founding Philadelphia | Washington Avenue Study | Creative Neighborhood Redevelopment | Investing in People and Places | Historical Commission

13 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Building Philadelphia lecture series returns March 11- May 20

13 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

AAA will take Pennsport auto service center idea to planning commission

13 years ago

Down the Shore

Spring-like weather early week; rainstorm likely on Wednesday

Spring is still over a week away but Mother Nature will deliver a preview over the next few days.  Temperatures will be in th ...

13 years ago

 Debo Adegbile (center), special counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, speaks with reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP file photo/Evan Vucci)
Politics & Policy

Even when you’re as guilty as Mumia, you deserve an able defense

It happened again. And it’s maddening.  Congress has punished a lawyer for doing what lawyers are supposed to do: represent th ...

13 years ago

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Cops uncover marijuana-growing operation at home

Authorities allegedly found an “elaborate” marijuana-growing operation at a southern New Jersey home after they went there as ...

13 years ago

Ex-Christie aides: Withdraw traffic jam subpoenas

Two figures in a political payback plot that has overshadowed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s administration will attempt to convi ...

13 years ago

Delaware police warn of IRS impersonator calls

Police in Delaware are warning of a scam where someone is impersonating an IRS agent ahead of tax day. New Castle County police s ...

13 years ago

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