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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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The IRS scandal – Chicago politics?

  I covered a handful of Obama campaign events in 2008 and 2012 and concluded I’d never dealt with a presidential campa ...

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The estimated 1,000 high-school students who marched Broad Street to protest School District budget cuts on Friday were not just visible. ...

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