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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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Your Brain on Politics

Dr. Dan gathered together academics Kathleen Hall Jamieson and David Redlawsk and clinician Lisa J. Cohen for a non-partisan discussion o ...

Air Date: July 11, 2016

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Members of Up Against the Law Legal Collective demonstrate to

Before DNC, Philly legal community teaches finer points of protest

With two weeks to go before the Democratic National Convention comes to town — along with thousands of protesters hoping to snag the me ...

10 years ago

(Bastiaan Slabbers for NewsWorks)

Here’s what you need to know about the DNC

Thousands are descending on Philadelphia for the week of the Democratic National Convention, July 25 – 28. What do we know now … ...

10 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the African Methodist Episcopal church national convention in Philadelphia Friday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

At AME convention in Philly, Clinton calls for calm and compassion in wake of violent deaths

Hillary Clinton says the nation must not “vilify” police officers or become “indifferent” to the ongoing deaths o ...

10 years ago

Former first ladies get together in 2003 for a fundraising event. From left are Rosalynn Carter

A look at women who’ve had a strong influence over the presidency

Specifically, first ladies. In 1919, just after WWI ends, Woodrow Wilson is in the midst of his second term as president when has ...

10 years ago

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Hillary Clinton waves to the crowd on the Atlantic City boardwalk before a speech about Donald Trump's business record in that city. (Anthony Smedile for NewsWorks)

Clinton bashes Trump in Atlantic City, but some offer vote of confidence in former casino mogul [photos]

In a campaign stop in South Jersey on Wednesday, presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton laid into her Republican r ...

10 years ago

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PlanPhilly
Government Accountability

Abatements, assessments, and unanswered questions from land value shift in 2017 property taxes

10 years ago

A federal judge's ruling will make it easier for Libertarian and Green Party candidates -- including presumptive Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein -- to get on the ballot in Pennsylvania. (AP file photo)

Greens, Libertarians win easier ballot access in Pa.

Presidential candidates for the Green and Libertarian parties will have an easier time getting on the ballot in Pennsylvania, thanks to a ...

10 years ago

The corruption conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell was overturned Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

Overturn of former Va. gov’s corruption conviction encourages Fattah lawyers

Attorneys for convicted U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah see a ray of hope now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ...

10 years ago

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Before his resignation

Fattah stands to lose property, cash in criminal forfeiture

It’s widely expected that former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah will serve jail time after being convicted on a slew of corruption charges ...

10 years ago

Supporters of leaving the E.U. celebrate at a party hosted by the Leave campaign in central London. (Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)
Speak Easy

After Britain’s E.U. exit, maybe there’s light at the end of the Chunnel

Well, they’ve done it: Defying torrential rain and the predictions of the pundits — including bookmakers caught flat-footed offer ...

10 years ago

 Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., walks after leaving the federal courthouse in Philadelphia, Tuesday, June 21, 2016. Fattah, a veteran Pennsylvania congressman, was convicted Tuesday in a racketeering case that largely centered on various efforts to repay an illegal $1 million campaign loan related to his unsuccessful 2007 mayoral bid. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)

Fattah resigns after 21 years in office, effective immediately

U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, convicted Tuesday of corruption charges, has resigned from Congress. In a letter sent from former Congress ...

10 years ago

Jurors continue discussing the government's case against U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah. (AP file photo)

Jury in Fattah corruption case continues deliberations

The federal jury deciding the fate of indicted U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah still hasn’t reached a verdict in his criminal corruption cas ...

10 years ago

House Speaker Paul Ryan speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington last month following his meeting with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

GOP attempting to write its own election year playbook

Even before Donald Trump got in hot water for his remarks about a Mexican-American judge and suggesting President Obama might be complici ...

10 years ago

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Auctioneer Mark Glick

New PAC aims to harvest Amish votes for Trump

A dark money group in Pennsylvania is trying to bring the Amish community to the polls to support Donald Trump in November. ...

10 years ago

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