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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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 Katharinia Grosse visits the project in the summer (Photo by Steve Weinik)

Artist plans 5-mile torrent of color along train tracks out of 30th St. Station

SEPTA and Amtrak commuters traveling through Philly can look forward to a lot of color in the spring as Berlin-based artist Katharinia Gr ...

12 years ago

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 (27 year-old Brahim M. Kelley/Courtesy: Delaware Department of Justice)

Wilmington man arrested for child pornography

A Wilmington man is behind bars on child pornography charges after an out-of-state investigation in North Carolina tipped off Delaware au ...

12 years ago

 (Charlie O'Neill/WHYY)

A final farewell to old electronics [video]

Cars and trucks laden with massive television sets, old speakers and even a large sound mixing board descended on the Wilmington Riverfro ...

12 years ago

 Senior quarterback Joseph Walker thinks MLK has a mental edge over opponent Archbishop Wood. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

MLK Cougars to go head to head for spot in state playoffs with Archbishop Wood on Saturday

It’s do-or-die once more for Martin Luther King High School’s football team. ...

12 years ago

 (Safe Haven photo)

No-kill Del. animal shelter euthanized dogs

With no notice, the financially-strapped Safe Haven Animal Sanctuary in Georgetown closed its doors for good, two weeks earlier than expe ...

12 years ago

Dazzling time-lapse video of New Jersey’s shoreline

Jack Fusco is a master of landscape astrophotogra ...

12 years ago

Planting the seeds for economic growth

In his weekly message, Delaware Governor Jack Markell discusses the multi-billion dollar Delaware farming industry and our efforts to sup ...

12 years ago

Delaware drug company signs 15-year lease

The old John Wanamaker site on Augustine Cut-Off in Wilmington is now the new home of biopharmaceutical company Incyte. The drug c ...

12 years ago

 Marine mammal experts are working to disentangle a young whale off the coast of New Jersey.

Entangled whale off New Jersey coast freed

A young humpback whale that became entangled in fishing rope off the New Jersey coast has been freed. The National Oceanic and Atm ...

12 years ago

 New Jersey (highlighted in green) shows scores higher than the national average at both grades 4 and 8

Are New Jersey’s latest national test scores good news or bad news?

Last week the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released ...

12 years ago

 Zynnie Bakes sells cookies, cupcakes, and confections. But not bread. (Nat Hamilton/for NewsWorks)

Residents say Fishtown cannot live by cupcakes alone

Many neighborhoods in Philly would be happy to have an array of new restaurants or a supermarket. Rapidly gentrifying Fishtown already ha ...

12 years ago

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 Jennith Kim works in Old City. She is not happy to see a  CVS is in the plans. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Old City says goodbye to The Shirt Corner, plans CVS

Some call it a pop-art landmark. Others call it an eyesore. Whatever you call it, the Shirt Corner at Third and Market streets in Philade ...

12 years ago

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Barack Obama

Poll: Americans agree on one thing — no one likes Congress

The calendar says it’s still fall, but it feels like the winter of our discontent in the minds of most Americans. President Obama i ...

12 years ago

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 Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, speaks to reporters after Senate Republicans derailed Obama's selection of Georgetown law professor Cornelia Pillard to fill one of three vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., amd Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., listen. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
National Interest

Sabotaging court nominees and dissing democracy

At the recent memorial service for Democratic House Speaker Tom Foley, former Republican leader Bob Michel talked nostalgically about how ...

12 years ago

 Jerry Pinkney, an award-winning author and illustrator, will help launch GFS' new Community Writers Series launches next Tuesday. (Courtesy of GFS)

Celebrated author/illustrator to launch GFS’ new Community Writers Series

With a mission of “featuring nationally known authors with local ties to Germantown,” the new Community Writers Series will l ...

12 years ago

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