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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
Public Health
Spotlight PA

How arguments in Washington are holding up coronavirus relief in Pennsylvania

Key players in the Capitol say they won’t make any decisions about how to spend $1 billion in remaining stimulus cash until Washington finishes negotiating a second stimulus.

6 years ago

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y. speak to media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
National
Public Health

Virus aid talks on brink of collapse, sides ‘very far apart’

A marathon meeting in the Capitol has generated lots of recriminations but little progress on the top issues confronting negotiators on vital COVID-19 rescue money.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he finishes speaking during an event at the Whirlpool Corporation facility in Clyde, Ohio, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Media
Technology

Trump bans dealings with Chinese owners of TikTok, WeChat

President Donald Trump has ordered an unspecified ban on “transactions” with the Chinese owners of the consumer apps TikTok and WeChat.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks during an event at the Whirlpool Corporation facility in Clyde, Ohio, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Elections
Religion

Playing electoral defense, Trump claims Biden opposes God

Even for a president known for his blunt criticism, Trump's remarks stood out and they signaled how contentious the campaign may get over the coming months.

6 years ago

Members of the American Postal Workers union local 89 protest in Old City on June 22, 2020, demanding the postal service be fully funded. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Why
Elections
Government Accountability
Philadelphia

Philadelphia’s big mail problem

Some people in Philadelphia haven’t had their mail delivered in three weeks. What's going on — and what could it mean for mail-in ballots in November?

Air Date: August 6, 2020

Listen 13:45
A statue of Octavius Catto at it's unveilling - statue facing front with arms spread open and back, people in the foreground in Philadelphia
Elections
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

55 years after the Voting Rights Act, there’s still work to do

The fight for the Black vote has never been more important.

6 years ago

A woman from Guatemala and her two daughters were apprehended upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and immediately expelled back to Mexico in the early hours of April 2, at the Paso del Norte International Bridge in Juárez.
NPR
Immigration
National

‘End of asylum’: Using the pandemic to turn away migrants, children seeking refuge

Tens of thousands of migrants have been turned away at the border since March. Now the administration wants to restrict asylum permanently.

6 years ago

Chanceford Township
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa.’s GOP-led legislature isn’t acting on climate change — even as scientists say the clock is ticking

Overall, most Pennsylvanians want lawmakers to do more, but the issue remains deeply partisan.

6 years ago

Election worker Khalid Battle reads a book as he waits for voters to cast their ballots in Pennsylvania primary election at Memorial Gospel Crusades Church in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Elections
Pennsylvania

The partisan conflict behind a quest to purge up to 800,000 voters from Pa.’s rolls

Judicial Watch is suing Pa. and three suburban counties to more aggressively purge “inactive” voters. Opponents say that could lead to disenfranchisement.

6 years ago

Listen 2:03
The thumbs up Like logo is shown on a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Tuesday, April 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Media
Technology

Facebook, citing virus misinformation, deletes Trump post

The post in question featured a link to a Fox News video in which Trump says children are “virtually immune” to the virus.

6 years ago

Philadelphia NAACP President Rodney Muhammad (Tom MacDonald, WHYY)
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
The Philadelphia Tribune

NAACP national leadership backs Rodney Muhammad despite his anti-Semitic post

Ending weeks of media silence, NAACP leadership condemned Muhammad’s social media post but stopped short of calling for him to resign on Wednesday

6 years ago

U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon joins federal, state and local officials at Second and Spring Garden streets to call for emergency funding for the struggling U.S. Postal Service. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Government Accountability
National

Philly congressional reps call for increased Postal Service funding

Boyle, Evans and Scanlon joined union officials and the city commissioners in urging the help, citing an anticipated surge in mail-in ballots in November.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump
National
Public Health

Chasm grows between Trump and government coronavirus experts

The result has been a daily delivery of a mixed message to the public at a moment when coherence is most needed.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump
NPR

Trump criticizes late Rep. John Lewis for not attending inauguration

When asked in an interview, which aired Monday evening, how history would remember the Georgia lawmaker who died last month, Trump said: "I don't know. I really don't know."

6 years ago

Coronavirus patient samples
Aging
National
Public Health

Trump nursing home plan limits supply of free COVID-19 tests

Nursing home residents and staff represent a tiny share of the U.S. population but account for as many as 4 in 10 coronavirus deaths, according to some estimates.

6 years ago

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