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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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Skytalk

Spring Ahead

It's time to set your clocks ahead!

Air Date: March 7, 2020

 A worker walks on top of a container of chemicals used in the making of a brine water that is then pumped below the surface in a hydraulic fracturing process to release natural gas from shale deposits at a gas well site in Zelienople, Pa. A new fee on gas drilling has generated millions of dollars more in revenue than first projected, but other major gas-producing states tax the industry at higher rates. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo, file)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Battleground 2020: the politics of energy

In this installment of Battleground 2020 we'll talk about energy politics in Pennsylvania and how the split in voters’ attitudes could influence the 2020 election.

Air Date: March 5, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 48:58
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The Pulse
Health

Changing Treatments

Medicine is always changing. New treatments become available. Old ones become obsolete. But how does a treatment become established? How ...

Air Date: March 6, 2020

Listen 48:50
Protesters of Safehouse, the proposed supervised injection clinic in Philadelphia gathered outside Constitution Health Plaza on Saturday. (Nina Feldman/WHYY)
The Why
Community

Philly’s supervised injection site plan falls apart

Two days after a judge cleared the way for Philly's supervised injection site to open, plans fell apart. Now it's facing more opposition than ever.

Air Date: March 5, 2020

Listen 16:42
Bill Nighy
Flicks

Bill Nighy for “Emma”

The actor talks with Patrick Stoner about this new Austen adaptation. ...

Air Date: March 5, 2020

Trader Michael Capolino works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street after the Group of Seven countries held off on giving the global economy new stimulus to help it cope with the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Radio Times

The economic impact of the coronavirus

We look at how the coronavirus is affecting financial markets, businesses, and consumer behavior and discuss what the government can do help stabilize the economy.

Air Date: March 5, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 48:59
The Republican National Committee has mailed forms, called the “2020 Congressional District Census,” to selected homes in Montgomery and Berks counties in recent weeks. (Provided)
The Why
Politics & Policy

RNC mailer labeled a ‘census’ sows confusion

Census advocates are worried that an RNC mailer called the "2020 Congressional District Census" will confuse Pennsylvanians and cost the state federal funding.

Air Date: March 4, 2020

Listen 12:35
The Pulse
Health

Outbreak 1793

COVID-19 — a coronavirus disease — is spreading around the world, putting people and governments on high alert. How will we respond t ...

Air Date: March 4, 2020

Listen 27:03
Frank Salazar, 70, shows an
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Let’s talk Super Tuesday

We discuss the results from Super Tuesday that have come in so far, what they say about the 2020 democratic electorate, and each candidate’s viable path to the nomination.

Air Date: March 4, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 48:58
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Eleanor Amplified

Ep 33: FlogDaar is the Future

In their hour of need, our heroes reunite despite the clear and present danger of forced unemployment. And what is soup, anyway? No one ...

Air Date: March 4, 2020

Listen 13:28
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The Why
Urban Planning

Losing ‘Boner 4ever’ graffiti? Philly’s torn

Here's the story behind the "Boner 4ever" tag on Philly's historic Beury Building, now slated for renovation. Why some are calling for preservation and others? Not so much.

Air Date: March 3, 2020

Listen 15:34
Flicks

Gavin O’Connor for “The Way Back”

Air Date: March 3, 2020

A monitor displaying a map of Asia and a tally of total coronavirus cases, deaths, and recovered, is visible behind Vice President Mike Pence, center, and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, left, as they tour the Secretary's Operations Center following a coronavirus task force meeting at the Department of Health and Human Services, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Radio Times
Health

Preparing for the coronavirus

We talk about the coronavirus, its spread to the U.S., the government's response, and steps people should take to be prepared.

Air Date: March 3, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 48:59
FILE - In this March 24, 2018 file photo, Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., closes her eyes and cries as she stands silently at the podium for the amount of time it took the Parkland shooter to go on his killing spree during the
Women 100

Emma González

After surviving the worst high school shooting in American history, this student channeled her grief into activism.

Air Date: March 2, 2020

Listen 1:05
The NAACP has filed suit on behalf of Robert Holbrook (left) and other currently and formerly incarcerated people whose Census numbers apply to the community where they are incarcerated rather than where they live. Holbrook spoke during a press conference at City Hall, accompanied by Philadelphia NAACP President Rodney Muhammad (right). (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Courts & Law

Former prisoners sue to end ‘prison gerrymandering’ in Pa.

People in Pa. prisons are counted as residents of where they're incarcerated instead of where they lived, leading to shifts in political power. Can a new lawsuit change that?

Air Date: March 2, 2020

Listen 11:46
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