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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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In Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s production of 'The Taming of the Shrew
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: The taming of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’

What are we to make of “The Taming of the Shrew,” William Shakespeare’s comedic celebration of woman-bashing and submis ...

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In Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s production of 'The Taming of the Shrew
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: The taming of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’

What are we to make of “The Taming of the Shrew,” William Shakespeare’s comedic celebration of woman-bashing and submis ...

10 years ago

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Urban Planning

Conventions past: Republican National Conventions in Philly, 1900, 1940 and 1948 in pictures

10 years ago

Pall bearers with fists raised carry the casket of  Philando Castile after his funeral service on Thursday
Speak Easy
Community

Heading toward change from impossible heartache

The week that Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were shot down was one of the most emotionally draining weeks for me, my black communit ...

10 years ago

 Paul Ryan is shown addressing the Pennsylvania delegation to the Republican National Convention on Monday morning. Seated at right is state House Speaker Mike Turzai. (Dave Davies/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Paul Ryan’s mixed message in Cleveland

Monday morning, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan made a case to Pennsylvanian Republicans to support the ticket with a message that, if ...

10 years ago

U.S. Rep Paul Ryan
National Interest

Paul Ryan plays footsie with the T-word

Paul Ryan addressed the Pennsylvania delegation at breakfast today. Care to guess how long it took him to say the word ...

10 years ago

Dave Davies: Off Mic

A dispatch from Cleveland

Over the next four days, we’ll all see history of some sort being made. There’s never been a presidential nominee quite like ...

10 years ago

Police guard the emergency room entrance of Our Lady Of The Lake Medical Center
The Philadelphia Experiment

Dear Gavin Long: Whose side were you on?

I wish I could have talked to 29-year-old Gavin Long before he died in the Sunday morning shootout in which he allegedly shot and killed ...

10 years ago

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan
National Interest

The fig leaf of faux Republican unity

CLEVELAND — At first glance, this looks like any other 21st century political convention. Fresh-faced city volunteers greet you with sm ...

10 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton Is shown at a campaign stop in June 2015. (David Goldman/AP Photo
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Despite American reluctance, Clinton has earned executive office slings and arrows

As potentially the first woman to become president in American history, Hillary Clinton is credited with having breached the glass ceili ...

10 years ago

Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wait for the start of a rally in Westfield
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Countering the deception of Trump’s ‘Make America great again’

What kind of message could counter the essential Trump narrative, the mantra "Make America Great Again!" Those four words are a code, of course, like all slogans.

10 years ago

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is shown with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally in Westfield
National Interest

The ‘safe’ choice: Mike Pence is a sop to wary conservatives

Now that Donald Trump has indeed chosen to partner with Mike Pence, we need to remember that veep candidates rarely move the needle on el ...

10 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Dear PennDOT: Save us from ourselves and remove South Broad’s parking median, permanently

10 years ago

Sen. Mike Lee
National Interest

It’s high noon for the stop-Trump rebellion

Could the Cleveland Trumpfest get sabotaged by delegates who detest their own nominee? We’ll soon find out, because it’s high ...

10 years ago

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is either leading or lagging Democrat Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Pa. polls show Clinton over Trump, vice versa

A pair of independent polls released Wednesday offer conflicting pictures of the presidential race in Pennsylvania. An ...

10 years ago

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