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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

Fixing immigration: Another front in the GOP’s uncivil war

  Republicans these days are warring with each other on multiple fronts – whether or how to replace Obamacare, whether ...

12 years ago

 Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey fields pointed questions from residents about police response times in their community. (Matthew Grady/for NewsWorks)

Police commissioner: ‘We ain’t opening a mini-station’ in southwest Germantown

The Commissioner’s message was clear: No. For about a year, community leaders in southwest Germantown have been hinting at e ...

12 years ago

 Seattle Seahawks' Richard Sherman answers a question during media day for the NFL Super Bowl XLVIII football game Tuesday in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
The Philadelphia Experiment

Super Bowl brings super stereotypes

On Sunday, America will stop to watch the Super Bowl, a premier sporting event featuring the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos. Tra ...

12 years ago

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More rain, higher temps predicted in Delaware climate study

A new report provides details on how Delaware’s climate is predicted to change over the next hundred years. Spoiler alert: the pred ...

12 years ago

 Gov. Jack Markell signs the minimum wage bill into law (Shana O'Malley/for NewsWorks)

Delaware passes, signs minimum wage bill into law [video]

Delaware lawmakers passed a bill that will raise the state’s minimum wage beginning this year. The bill made it through both the ...

12 years ago

 The photography-based works of Canadian filmmaker Michael Snow are the subject of a new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)
Arts & Entertainment

Philly Museum of Art offers challenging, rewarding retrospective of Michael Snow photos

One of the most recent pieces in the 40-year retrospective of Michael Snow& ...

12 years ago

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Speak Easy

7 amazing Philadelphia libraries you’ve probably never heard of

Recently I attended a computer workshop in a classroom at Philadelphia FIGHT, an agency that im ...

12 years ago

 Opera Philadelphia presents the flamenco-inspired Spanish opera

Weekly Entertainment Guide – ‘Ainadamar,’ ‘Serenade,’ and 27 Amendments

Looking for something to do this winter season? WHYY’s Robin Bloom has some recommendations on what’s happening around the Ph ...

12 years ago

 An old, yet functioning, Victrola on display at the RCA Heritage Program Museum at Rowan University. (Zack Seward/WHYY)
Lifestyle

When Camden was Silicon Valley — and glimpses of a med-tech turnaround

Camden, New Jersey used to be a tech hot spot. Now, the troubled city is showing signs of life around health care. Few people see ...

12 years ago

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 Laurie Klatscher, Tad Cooley, John Judd, Robin Abramson, and Alex Hoeffler in Philadelphia Theatre Company’s production of
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Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘Tribes’ and the all-consuming power of words

In “Tribes,” a play that bursts with life and energy in a new Philadelphia Theatre Company production, it’s all about w ...

12 years ago

 A foxy, frozen sunset. (Image courtesy of Kevin Doherty/Ocean Aerial Photography)

VIDEO: Photog captures stunning aerial footage of fox walking on frozen Barnegat Bay

Kevin Doherty just planned on launching his remote control helicopter affixed with a camera to capture the sun setting over the froz ...

12 years ago

Northern cold may ― or may not ― be enough to subdue Southern pine beetles in N.J.

The beetles that feast on New Jersey’s Pinelands may be as shocked as you are by this winter’s unusually cold weather. But it ...

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

January 31-February 2: PlanningCamp | African American Children’s Book Fair | Wagner Winter Wonderland | Shop on the Square | GLAM Hack | Charles Dickens’ 202nd birthday

12 years ago

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Urban Planning

SEPTA considers at-grade, elevated King of Prussia rail

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

January 31: Projections concern SugarHouse | Building collapse lawyers seek gag order | Police Commissioner says no to Queen Lane station | Gas explosion, condominium fire

12 years ago

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