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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

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Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Bucks County GOP lawmakers call for investigation into unresolved unemployment claims

Bucks County members of the Republican Caucus call for the House Oversight Committee to look into what they call “the failure of the Unemployment Compensation program.”

6 years ago

Dr. Anthony Fauci
NPR
National
Public Health

Trump again casts doubt on Fauci as COVID-19 cases surge

President Trump shared a tweet from game show host Chuck Woolery, who claimed the CDC is lying about the coronavirus pandemic to hurt the president in November’s election.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

Damning report on Pa.’s failure to protect residents from fracking unlikely to result in major reform

Despite the two-year effort to bring these findings to light, it’s unclear if the grand jury report will bring about meaningful reforms sought by those who say they’ve harmed.

6 years ago

A rally outside the Montclair, N.J., town hall on July 1. Protesters hung 1,101 absentee ballots to represent the number of votes that weren't counted in a mayoral election that was decided by just 195 votes.
NPR
Elections

Signed, sealed, undelivered: Thousands of mail-in ballots rejected for tardiness

An NPR analysis finds that at least 65,000 absentee and mail-in ballots were rejected this year for arriving late. That could prove crucial in a close election.

6 years ago

President Trump
NPR
National

Roger Stone clemency latest example of Trump rewarding his friends, scholars say

Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime confidant just days before he was set to report to prison. Scholars say Trump's clemencies have rewarded friends and allies.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump wore a mask during his visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., on Saturday.
NPR
National
Public Health

Trump wears mask in public for first time during Walter Reed visit

The president had indicated earlier this week that he would likely wear a mask to the medical center to avoid the possibility of infecting soldiers.

6 years ago

Lin-Manuel Miranda is the composer and creator of the award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton. History's Alexander Hamilton was at the center of the push to create an Electoral College. (Carlos Giusti/AP Photo)
NPR
History
Performing Arts

Hamilton, in fiction and history, is key to understanding the electoral college

When the Supreme Court ruled this past week on "faithless electors," Hamilton's name appeared five times. But the story is a little more complicated than the Broadway show.

6 years ago

The pending bill cites balloons as a danger to wildlife and marine animals who mistake them as food or become entangled in the string. (Wikimedia commons)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

N.J. bill sets hefty fine for intentionally releasing, tethering balloons

The bill prohibits the intentional release of balloons inflated with lighter-than-air gases and intentionally leaving tethered balloons unattended.

6 years ago

A digital information sign at Norristown’s municipal complex advertises the 2020 census. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Infrastructure
Pennsylvania

Organizers scramble for signatures to block Norristown sewer sale

In June, the borough’s council approved an $82 million sale of its sewer system, but critics say the process is rushed and won’t benefit residents.

6 years ago

In this March 16, 2020, file photo, a patient receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Biology
Public Health

US bets on untested company to deliver COVID-19 vaccine

The commitment to ApiJect dwarfs the other needle orders the government has placed with a major manufacturer and two other small companies.

6 years ago

The Del National Guard is helping test people at the state's beaches. (U.S. Army Capt. Brendan Mackie)
Philadelphia
Public Health
Billy Penn

This is how Philly decides what states land on its ‘self-quarantine’ list

The city has walked back its Delaware travel advisory, but is still urging extreme caution.

6 years ago

In this Sept. 27, 1994 photo, then-House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich of Ga., pauses while speaking to Republican congressional candidates on Capitol Hill during a rally where they pledged a
Radio Times
History

Newt Gingrich and the politics of warfare

Princeton professor Julian Zelizer discusses his book, "Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party."

Air Date: July 10, 2020 10:00 am

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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms addresses a Democratic National Committee event in June 2019 in Atlanta. The mayor is considered a contender for Joe Biden's vice presidential pick. (Dustin Chambers/Getty Images)
NPR
Elections
National

Keisha Lance Bottoms, a possible Biden VP pick, sees profile rise amid crises

The first-term Atlanta mayor has spoken out against the state of Georgia's Republican-led pandemic response and spoken forcefully to protesters in her city.

6 years ago

New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
History
New Jersey

New Jersey leaders want to replace ‘freeholder’ title with ‘county commissioner’

Gov. Phil Murphy supports the legislature that would replace the colonial-era term with something modern and understandable.

6 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at McGregor Industries in Dunmore, Pa., Thursday, July 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Economy
National

Biden pledges New Deal-like economic agenda to counter Trump

Democratic candidate Joe Biden is proposing using the federal government’s regulatory and spending power to bolster U.S. manufacturing and technology firms.

6 years ago

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