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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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Opinion & Essay

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (center) visits Belmont Charter School in West Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Toomey’s long road to 2016

I remember watching Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey announcing his re-election bid last September at a hotel ballroom in King of Prussi ...

10 years ago

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

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

10 years ago

FBI Director James Comey's announcement that his bureau was reviewing new emails possibly relevant to Hillary Clinton's private email server investigation has thrust him into the public spotlight again just days before Election Day. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
National Interest

Comey’s late hit: Abuse of power, thumb on the scale

Courtesy of James Comey’s abuse of power, the FBI has crafted a new legal standard: You’re guilty of unspecified innuendo, ba ...

10 years ago

Former Philadelphia Mayor John Street is seen at City Hall in Philadelphia. (AP Photo)
The Philadelphia Experiment

Hillary Clinton must channel John Street in FBI scandal

On Friday, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey wrote Congressional leaders, saying newly discovered emails could be rele ...

10 years ago

Pennsylvania state Rep. Martina White (left)and her Democratic opponent Matt Darragh.(Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Republican battling to hang on in Northeast Philly

While the presidential contest is making headlines, there’s a donnybrook of a legislative race in far northeast Philadelphia over w ...

10 years ago

Pennsylvania State Capitol building. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo
Speak Easy
Money

Charter expansion bill is all tricks, no treats for Pennsylvania taxpayers

Halloween is just around the corner, but there is something far scarier in the halls of the Pennsylvania Capitol than any zombie that com ...

10 years ago

Your Need to Feel Powerful Over my Small Body, by Jessie Hemmons
Speak Easy
Arts & Entertainment

Lack of justice compounds pain and shame of abuse

Childhood sexual abuse affects approximately one i ...

10 years ago

N.J. Gov. Chris Christie is shown in August 2016. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
National Interest

Follow-up Friday: Chris Christie’s very squalid plummet

It’s darn lucky for Chris Christie that he signed on as manservant to a con artist extraordinaire, because if he were not currently ...

10 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Seeking refuge in pedestrian spaces on Baltimore Ave

10 years ago

Bill Weld is shown in 2014. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia
National Interest

Trashing Trump: Bill Weld’s moderate Republican plea

At this point, what could possibly happen in this cracked campaign that we haven’t already seen? I dunno, maybe somebody will float ...

10 years ago

The Pfizer flag flies in front of world headquarters in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan
Speak Easy
Money

Direct-to-consumer drug advertising on TV a growth industry

The pharmaceutical industry spends more than $2 billion a year advertising direct-to-consumer drugs on TV, an increase of 30 percent over ...

10 years ago

National Interest

Hypocrisy on parade: Newt the philanderer says that Megyn is ‘fascinated with sex’

Hang in there, folks. We’re gonna weather the final 13 days of this thing with the help of coffee, Zoloft, chocolate, yoga, wine, w ...

10 years ago

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Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

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 ...

10 years ago

Kevin Glaccum, artistic director of Azuka Theatre. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

At this Philadelphia theater, the patrons decide the price of a ticket

More than long lines or scarce parking, there’s one thing that will keep patrons from attending plays without fail: high ticket pri ...

10 years ago

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Independent candidate Evan McMullin speaks during a rally Friday
National Interest

Two weeks til election, and we’re talking about Utah?!

Mike Pence is set to stump tomorrow in Utah. Yes, Utah. The Trumpster fire is so out of control that it has now become necessary to waste ...

10 years ago

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