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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

According to New Jersey state officials, there are 20,000 active foreclosure cases currently making their way through the courts. (David J. Phillip/AP Photo)
Housing
NJ Spotlight

Trenton tackles N.J.’s foreclosure rate, down but still highest in nation

According to New Jersey state officials, there are 20,000 active foreclosure cases currently making their way through the courts.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., left, and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., right, arrives for a Senate Republican policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
Elections

Congress could get Mueller report in April, Graham says

Attorney General William Barr is going through the report to take out grand jury material and classified information, both of which can't be publicly disclosed under the law.

6 years ago

The Allegheny Land Trust manages the Audubon Greenway northwest of Pittsburgh. The organization first acquired a piece of the land in 2003 and has since added to it with a combination of public and private dollars. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. expects funding from popular conservation program this year despite 5-month lapse

Despite strong bipartisan support for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, Congress let it expire last September.

6 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Biden Courage Awards Tuesday, March 26, 2019, in New York. (Frank Franklin II/AP Photo)
National

Biden criticizes ‘white man’s culture,’ role in Anita Hill hearing

Former Vice President Joe Biden condemned "a white man's culture" as he lashed out at violence against women and lamented his role in the Anita Hill hearing.

6 years ago

Union members and activists protest over contract negotiations with Wabtec Corporation in Wilmerding, Pa., on March 6. Many are workers from one of the company's facilities in Erie County, which flipped from voting for Barack Obama to Donald Trump in 2016. (Don Gonyea/NPR)
NPR
Economy
Pennsylvania

Trump faces mixed reviews among union workers, who still face insecurity

Some union members who were Trump backers from 2016 are reassessing whether they'll support him again in 2020.

6 years ago

Workers prepare voting machines at the Office of the  City Commissioner's warehouse the day before the recount of votes in 75 precincts was set to begin. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Elections

Cyber security expert urges Pa. to find the money for new voting machines

At a state capitol news conference Tuesday, he warned Pennsylvania, as a swing state, is a target for foreign agents looking to sow doubt in the next election.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., left, and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., right, takes a question from a member of the media as he arrives for a Senate Republican policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Health Care
National
Public Health

Dems cry foul as Trump calls for striking down ‘Obamacare’

The Trump administration has told a federal appeals court it wants the entire Affordable Care Act struck down, an outcome that could leave millions uninsured

6 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (Noah K. Murray/AP Photo)
Higher Education
New Jersey

N.J. Gov. Murphy pledges to make higher education more accessible, affordable

Announcing his statewide plan for higher education Tuesday, which he said the state has lacked for years, Gov. Murphy emphasized the need among students for work experience.

6 years ago

At a news conference in front of Bartram High School in Southwest Philadelphia, State Sen. Anthony Williams, who's running against Jim Kenney in the mayoral race, criticized Kenney's work on stemming violence in Philadelphia. (Dave Davies/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Philadelphia

Mayoral candidate Williams says Kenney’s plans to stem violence in Philly have failed

Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Williams criticized Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney on crime, saying his plans to stem violence have failed.

6 years ago

President George H.W. Bush addressing the nation on Sept. 5, 1989. The president illustrated the threat of drugs by holding up a baggie of crack he said had been seized across the street from the White House. (Courtesy of George Bush Presidential Library and Museum)
Addiction
History
Marketplace

30 years ago, George H.W. Bush held up a bag of crack on live TV. Where’d he get it?

Overall drug use, and the use of crack in particular, was in decline by 1989, but Bush turbocharged the war on drugs that night.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump signs the first veto of his presidency in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, March 15, 2019, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
Immigration

House fails to override Trump veto of his border emergency

The House fell short Tuesday in its effort to override President Donald Trump's first veto, handing him a victory to spend billions to construct barriers along the border.

6 years ago

The state Capitol building in Harrisburg. (Tom Downing/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Income Inequality
Pennsylvania

Pa. Republicans, Democrats stake out positions in general assistance battle

They already got rid of it once before, in 2012. But the program landed back on the GOP chopping block after the state Supreme Court revived it last year on a technicality.

6 years ago

Detective Barbara J. Mattson, of the Connecticut State Police, holds up a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the same make and model of gun used by Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook School shooting. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
Radio Times

Holding gun manufacturers accountable

A Connecticut Supreme Court decision to allow Sandy Hook massacre victim's families sue gun makers could change the landscape of the firearms industry.

6 years ago

Listen 29:07
Special Counsel Robert Mueller walks past the White House after attending services at St. John's Episcopal Church, in Washington, Sunday, March 24, 2019. Mueller closed his long and contentious Russia investigation with no new charges, ending the probe that has cast a dark shadow over Donald Trump's presidency. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Radio Times

Mueller’s investigation summary

According to Mueller's investigation, Trump did not collude with Russia. But, according to the report, he cannot be fully exonerate either.

6 years ago

Listen 19:39
Freshmen Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has provoked a new debate over climate change with her Green New Deal. (Kevin Hagen/AP)
NPR
Economic Development
Elections
Environment

Green New Deal vote sets up climate change as key 2020 issue

Senate Republicans will force a vote on the Green New Deal this week as part of an effort to turn the provocative climate change resolution into a wedge issue for 2020.

6 years ago

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