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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

Congressmen Pat Meehan and Don Norcross speak at electricians training center in Upper Chichester, Pa.
Philadelphia

Congressmen say the IRS’s 529 college savings program should expand to include trade schools

Students going to trade school may soon be able to make use of a college savings program to help pay for their supplies. A ...

8 years ago

Alejandra Villamares, who was awarded DACA status in September 2016, just started her freshman year at Wesleyan (Conn.) University. (Courtesy of Alejandra Villamares)
Delaware
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Immigration

DACA recipient at Wesleyan hopes Congress keeps program

WHYY recently told the story Delaware vo-tech student Alejandra Villamares, who won a ...

8 years ago

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 Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has joined more than a dozen other states in suing the Trump administration over its decision to end the DACA program protecting young immigrants. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Pennsylvania, Delaware join in suing Trump administration over ending DACA

Fifteen states — including Pennsylvania and Delaware — and the District of Columbia sued Wednesday to block President Donald Trump ...

8 years ago

 Myanmar’s radical Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu attends a media briefing in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. (Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)

On ‘Radio Times’: The ultranationalist Buddhist monk leading anti-Muslim fervor in Myanmar

On Wednesday’s Radio Times, host Marty Moss-Coane was joined by Azeem Ibrahim, author of “The Rohingya: Inside Myanmar’s Hidden ...

8 years ago

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Pennsylvania Rep. Dan Moul, R-Adams,
Economy
Pennsylvania

Pa. House budget plan gets skeptical response from Wolf, Dems and Senate

A group of Pennsylvania House Republicans has unveiled a plan to balance the more than $2 billion budget deficit by, primarily, raiding d ...

8 years ago

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., back left, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hi
National Interest

Should Democrats do a deal for the Dreamers?

Let’s stick with the story about the Dreamers — the 800,000 young immigrants Trump wants to kick out of the country — because w ...

8 years ago

Democratic nomination for the seat in the spring. Bell faces Republican Chris Brown in the November election.
New Jersey

N.J. Senate candidate tapped to fill out Whelan term

The Atlantic County Democratic Committee has tapped former freeholder Colin Bell to fill the seat in the New Jersey Senate left vacant by ...

8 years ago

In this file photo, Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, use a makeshift footbridge as they carry their children and belongings after their camp was inundated with rain water near Balukhali refugee camp, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. With a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims sparking accusations of ethnic cleansing from the United Nations and others. (Dar Yasin/AP Photo)
Radio Times
International

The Rohingya crisis intensifies

Guests: Azeem Ibrahim, Jamila Hanan, Derek Mitchell For years, the Burmese government has continued its practice ...

Air Date: September 6, 2017

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 Pennsylvania State Representative John Taylor will not seek re-election. (Image from John Taylor's YouTube video Fighting Squatters in our Neighborhoods)

Philly’s Taylor won’t seek re-election to Pa. Legislature

Veteran Philadelphia Republican state Rep. John Taylor has decided not to seek re-election next year. When he finishes his current ...

8 years ago

 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, file)

On ‘Radio Times’: Trump’s DACA repeal creates problems for GOP-led congress

Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke today about the Trump administration’s rationale for ending the Obama-era program called Deferred ...

8 years ago

U.S. Rep. Tom MacArthur,
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Immigration

Area U.S. lawmakers hit moderate notes on DACA

Area lawmakers in Congress say the children of immigrants covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, s ...

8 years ago

Anel Medina, a registered nurse who graduated from Delaware County Community College, joins a rally in support of DACA.
Immigration

‘Dreamers’ react in anger, fear, but not surprise over Trump ending DACA

Anel Medina was five when her mother illegally brought her to Chester County from Mexico. On Tuesday, the 26-year-old registered n ...

8 years ago

 FILE- In this Aug. 15, 2017, file photo, a woman holds up a signs in support of the Obama administration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, during an immigration reform rally at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
National Interest

Trump, Dreamers, and The Royal Scam

Six years ago, when Trump was a blowhard who ran beauty contests, he surfaced on Fox News and talked about the undocumented immigrants wh ...

8 years ago

 (AP file photo)
Immigration
Law

Trump to Congress: ‘Get ready to do your job’ on immigration

President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday it’s up to Congress to ultimately decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigr ...

8 years ago

 (AP file photo)

Trump to Congress: ‘Get ready to do your job’ on immigration

President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday it’s up to Congress to ultimately decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigr ...

8 years ago

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