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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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Politics & Policy

The Fox Theatre displays signs for the Democratic presidential debates in Detroit, Monday, July 29, 2019. The second scheduled debate will be hosted by CNN on July 30 and 31. (Paul Sancya/AP Photo)
National

New rules for 2nd debate: No 1-word answers or show of hands

CNN pledges not to ask questions that require a show of hands by the politicians and will not ask them to confine answers to a one-word "yes" or "no."

6 years ago

Beverly Jaker of Woodbridge (right) and her sister, Marilyn, lounge under beach umbrellas in Manasquan on July 29, 2019. (Nicholas Pugliese/WHYY)
New Jersey
Outdoors
Public Safety

Beach umbrella impalements spur Sen. Menendez to call for action

Wind can turn the sunshades into “projectile spears,” U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez said. He wants a federal agency to issue safety guidelines.

6 years ago

Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler (left) and U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) visit Monroe refinery in Trainor, Pa., to discuss eliminating the federal regulation that requires blending ethanol with gasoline. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Business
Energy
Environment

At Delco refinery, Toomey pushes to reverse ethanol mandate

The Pa. Republican co-sponsored a bill with California Democrat Feinstein to dump the mandate that the fuel made from corn be mixed into transportation fuel.

6 years ago

 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speak during the second presidential debate last year at Washington University in St. Louis. Your political beliefs may be influencing your perception. (AP file photo)
National Interest
National Interest

Remember 2016? When beating Trump in the debates didn’t matter?

He went 0 for 3 against Clinton, but won anyway. So much for the importance of debates. Perhaps 2016 was an outlier.

6 years ago

More than 100 people gathered at the Mother Bethel AME Church in Center City Sunday vowing to fight for reform of a police force they say isn’t accountable to the city’s people. (Ximena Conde/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Policing

Philly police will sign a new city contract in 2020. These activists want a seat at the negotiating table.

Recent revelations of Philadelphia police sharing bigoted Facebook posts have stirred anger over a city police department that has paid out $18 million in misconduct suits.

6 years ago

Rafael Robb is escorted from court to a waiting car in King of Prussia Pa. on Feb. 1, 2007, after he was ordered to stand trial on charges of first- and third-degree murder. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
The Why
Criminal Justice
Pennsylvania

The Pa. loophole a Penn prof and confessed killer almost slipped through

Penn economist Rafael Robb bludgeoned his wife, Ellen to death in 2006 and was released after only 10 years. Why his case revealed cracks in Pa.'s criminal justice system.

Air Date: July 29, 2019

Listen 12:24
Smyrna School District Superintendent Patrick Williams (third from left)talks about legislation allowing police to inform school leaders when a student experiences a traumatic event. (From left) Gov. John Carney, Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long, and Smryna Police Chief Torrie James stand alongside Williams in Carney’s Dover office. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Behavioral Health
Delaware
Kids

Del. police to notify schools when a student experiences trauma at home

Delaware Gov. Carney has signed legislation requiring police to notify schools if a student has experienced or witnessed a traumatic event.

6 years ago

Centre County introduced new ES&S voting machines in the primary on May 21, 2019. (Min Xian/WPSU)
Elections
Government Accountability

Election upgrades could come with hidden costs for Pa. taxpayers

Already facing $100M+ in upfront costs for machines, counties are struggling to pin vendors down on pricing for software updates.

6 years ago

In this Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, photo, pedestrians in Newburgh, an upstate New York city already struggling with poverty and violent crime were told to have their blood tested for a toxic chemical because its water supply was found to have high levels of the cancer-linked chemical PFOS that was used for firefighting at the nearby military base. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
Radio Times
Environment
Public Health
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Environmental racism / Mueller testimony

We talk about why environmental health hazards disproportionately affect communities of color and we get analysis of Robert Mueller's testimony before Congress.

Air Date: July 25, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:04
The remains of Clarkson
The Why
Aging
Public Health

Why so many bodies go unclaimed in the Philly suburbs

Hundreds of unclaimed dead are lying in morgues and unmarked graves in the Philly suburbs. Who are they and why is no one claiming their remains?

Air Date: July 25, 2019

Listen 13:23
Former special counsel Robert Mueller, checks pages in the report as he testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, July 24, 2019 in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
National

Pa. representatives stick to party line in Mueller hearing

Three Pennsylvania members of Congress had a chance to question former Special Counsel Robert Mueller Wednesday.

6 years ago

Former special counsel Robert Mueller is sworn in to testify to the House Judiciary Committee about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
National Interest
Elections
National
National Interest

Robert Mueller performs in congressional Kabuki theater

His tendentious terminology, coupled with his stoic reticence, will not move the ball forward.

6 years ago

DANYA HENNINGER / BILLY PENN
Government Accountability
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Philly wrote $100 million in tickets in the last decade. Half of them went unpaid.

It’s unclear if the city breaks even on the cost of code enforcement.

6 years ago

A sign announces a polling place in Spanish outside of the Harrison Community Center during New Jersey's primary election June 5. (Julio Cortez/AP)
Elections
New Jersey

Murphy signs law to make N.J. polling place information easier to find

N.J. will stop publishing a comprehensive list of polling places in newspapers. Here’s how it’ll work instead.

6 years ago

Former special counsel Robert Mueller, is sworn in before he testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Government Accountability
National

Mueller dismisses Trump’s claims of Russia probe exoneration

Former special counsel Robert Mueller is testifying before House lawmakers Wednesday about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

6 years ago

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