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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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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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National

The Electoral College is in need of an adjustment

Is the Electoral College a ridiculous relic or an essential element of democracy? Should Congress dismantle it? Do better alternatives exist?

8 years ago

In this photo taken Dec. 1

Fearing Trump crackdown, ‘dreamers’ advised to end travel

Immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, but were protected from deportation by President Barrack Obama, are being ...

8 years ago

Republican Strategist Kellyanne Conway, who served as campaign manager for President Elect Donald Trump, approached a stage where she would serve as grand marshall during the holiday parade in her hometown of Hammonton, Nj. (Brad Larrison for NewsWorks)

Conway gets warm hometown welcome in South Jersey [photos]

A large crowd of people lined up along Bellevue Avenue in downtown Hammonton, New Jersey to welcome Donald Trump’s campaign manager ...

8 years ago

Chaka Fattah breaks ground on a bike path connecting Manayunk and Lower Merion Township on Oct. 28

Recalling decades of good work, many in district ready to forgive Fattah as sentencing nears

Former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah will be sentenced in federal court Monday morning after his conviction on a slew of corruption charges in J ...

8 years ago

Trump’s Pennsylvania electors showing no signs of flipping

Anyone hoping Pennsylvania’s 20 “unbound” Electoral College members might turn against Republican president-elect Donal ...

8 years ago

Jill Stein

Federal judge to rule on Stein recount push Monday

On Monday, a federal judge plans to issue a ruling on Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s push for a recount of Pennsylvania’s ...

8 years ago

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Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey is shown debating against his Democratic challenger Katie McGinty in October at Temple University in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke
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Immigration
Philadelphia

In fighting sanctuary cities, Pat Toomey acts against his own history

In December 1911, Wilbur Franklin Phelps was finishing up his first year publishing ...

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Economic Development
Government Accountability
Real Estate

Investor green card program that has greenlit Philly’s building boom faces uncertain future

8 years ago

Defense: Consider Fattah’s good deeds in sentencing

Lawyers for a former Pennsylvania congressman are asking a judge to consider his years of public service before sentencing him in a feder ...

8 years ago

This image provided by C-SPAN2 shows Vice President Joe Biden listening in the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington

Senate gives bipartisan tribute to Joe Biden

Vice President Joe Biden was honored by his former colleagues in the United States Senate Wednesday.  The tribute from Republicans a ...

8 years ago

Philadelphia voting machines are stored at the Office of the City Commissioners warehouse. (Brad Larrison for NewsWorks)

Philly judge denies Stein request to examine voting machines

A Philadelphia judge has refused the request of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein to do a digital audit of a small fraction o ...

8 years ago

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump campaign at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
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Economy
Social Justice

Did economics or bigotry motivate Trump voters? It was both.

There seems to be some bickering happening in the post-mortem analysis of the recent election. I sense a failure among shell-shocked libe ...

8 years ago

 John Solomon, 24, talks about his experiences with guns, which began when he was 11 years old and ended with a 5-year prison sentence. He spoke during a community meeting in North Philadelphia with Pennsylvania Attorney General-elect Josh Shapiro. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Soon to be AG, Shapiro gets grass-roots perspective on Philly gun violence

The first time John Solomon picked up a gun, he was 11 years old. ...

8 years ago

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Marybeth Kuznik

Green Party goes to Pa. Capitol to demand more election oversight

Green Party supporters were in Harrisburg Monday to back Jill Stein’s quest for a presidential vote recount in the commonwealth. ...

8 years ago

Governor Christie is serving his second and final term. (Alan Tu/WHYY)
New Jersey

How the 2017 N.J. Democratic gubernatorial nomination looks right now

If it all plays out as anticipated, the campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor next year will pit good old-fashioned machine ...

8 years ago

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