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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

U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks to a crowd at the Sheet Metal Workers Union Hall in Philadelphia Monday night. She and Vice President Joe Biden are urging city Democrats to give Hillary Clinton a landslide victory. ( (Bastiaan Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

Pelosi, Biden visit Philly union hall to solidify support for Clinton

Two Democratic superstars stopped in Philadelphia as the parade of surrogates for Hillary Clinton continued in crucial Pennsylvania Monda ...

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Campaign signs are shown in Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez
Speak Easy

Why I won’t vote for Hillary; and I won’t vote for Donald, either

The smart money says that Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States. I can finally with a clear conscience, for the first time in my adult life, not vote

9 years ago

An anti-Trump protester

Eastern Pennsylvania church hit with anti-Trump graffiti

State police say an eastern Pennsylvania church has been targeted with graffiti criticizing Donald Trump, as well as obscene sexual and a ...

9 years ago

Mike Pence, Vice-presidential candidate for the Republican Party, accompanied by his wife Karen Pence greet voters as the take the stage at a rally in the Philadelphia suburbs, on Friday. (Bastiaan Slabbers for NewsWorks)

Pence stumps in Bucks, piling on Clinton in the process [photos]

What was expected to be a hum-drum campaign stop turned into a rare moment of political theater Friday, as Republican Vice Presidential n ...

9 years ago

Bucks county Republican congressional candidate Brian Fitzpatrick speaks during Friday morning's debate at Del Val University. (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)

Final debate held for key Pennsylvania Congressional race with no incumbent

Pennsylvania has just one competitive US congressional race this year, in Bucks County and a sliver of Montgomery County. At the f ...

9 years ago

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2016 Pennsylvania voter guide

Find your Pa. polling place. ...

9 years ago

A human welder works beside a robot welder at PTR Baler in Port Richmond. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Income Inequality
Philadelphia

Unemployed see faint glints of hope in both candidates’ job-creation plans

Nationwide, about 43 million people live below the federal poverty line. In Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs, 800,000 peo ...

9 years ago

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Democrats modify attack ad in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race

A national Democratic group has modified a TV ad attacking Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey after his campaign challenged the ...

9 years ago

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 Bernie Sanders delegates express their dissatisfaction on day three of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. (Emily Cohen for NewsWorks)

Still carrying a torch for Bernie — but lighting the way for other progressives

On a recent Wednesday night, about a dozen members of a group called Phoenixville Area Progressives met over beers and burgers on the roo ...

9 years ago

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Democratic vice presidential candidate

On the stump in Bucks, Kaine rallies support for Democratic ticket

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine rallied voters in Bucks County Wednesday, making the case for a Hillary Clinton presiden ...

9 years ago

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Speak Easy

Help! I’m politically divided from my massage therapist

I just found out my massage therapist is voting for Trump. I’m voting for Hillary. Massages are supposed to be relaxing, and knowin ...

9 years ago

The Philadelphia Board of Ethics has fined three current and former employees of City Councilman David Oh for working on his re-election campaign on city time. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Councilman Oh staff fined by Philly ethics board

The Philadelphia Board of Ethics has cited and fined three employees of Philadelphia City Councilman David Oh for working on Oh’s r ...

9 years ago

Candidates for Pennsylvania attorney general (from left) Josh Shapiro and John Rafferty. (NewsWorks and AP file photos)

Pa. attorney general hopefuls debate experience, independence, and moving office past Kane

With just two weeks to Election Day, the candidates for Pennsylvania attorney general debated over who’s better suited to take over ...

9 years ago

Technician Tom Mattia Jr. (left) and Malcolm Kenyatta test a voting machine in 2011 in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)

Age of Pennsylvania’s voting machines serves as safeguard against cyberattack

For weeks, we’ve been hearing about whether a cyberattack could somehow interfere with the upcoming presidential election results. ...

9 years ago

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Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane arrives at the Montgomery County courthouse in Norristown

Kane free on bail after being sentenced to 10 to 23 months in jail [updated]

Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has been sentenced to 10 to 23 months in prison for leaking secret grand jury material ...

9 years ago

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