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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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Speak Easy

Was 2012 a good year for movies?

Political consultant and avid movie-goer Neil Oxman and Daily News movie critic Gary Thompson joined Radio Times for an annual year-at-th ...

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National Interest

Hillary Clinton’s new scandal: Clotgate!

  Remember when an ailing Hillary Clinton suffered a concussion – and denizens of the right-wing fever swamp duly insis ...

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A road trip through the economic landscape

No matter where we sit on the tax spectrum, Americans feel like children in the family car when their parents can’t agree on direct ...

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Dave Davies: Off Mic

Philly controller’s race — start your engines

While New Jersey will have a governor’s race in 2013, it will be mostly a quiet year for Pennsylvania politics. But one elec ...

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National Interest

A eulogy for Newsweek

  At year’s end, it is customary in journalism to take note of those notables who have left this world. Norman Schwarzk ...

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Philly Love Note: The Mummers Parade

While most of the world celebrates the turning of a calendar year one evening premature, many wise city-dwellers curb their evening libat ...

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My resolutions for you in 2013

Every year I make New Year’s resolutions and every year I break them. So this year, I’m trying something a little different: ...

13 years ago

National Interest

Tea party conservatives and the definition of insanity

For tea party conservatives, this is their winter of discontent. Their movement, which peaked in 2010, garnered a mere 21 percent approva ...

13 years ago

Speak Easy

What was the best gift given or received this year?

This time of year is traditonally for giving and for receiving — and for that reason, it’s often a time of extreme joy and sore d ...

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National Interest

A 2012 campaign quiz: How much do you (want to) remember?

Happy holiday week. Here’s my 2012 election trivia quiz – a greatly expanded version of what appeared in print on Sunday. Go ...

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Dave Davies: Off Mic

Philadelphia Ethics Board plans crackdown on independent expenditures

We just saw a presidential race in which federal campaign contribution limits officially became a joke. Supreme Court decisions allowed s ...

13 years ago

The Philadelphia Experiment

Philadelphia should be grateful this holiday season

As I drove through the parking lot at Willow Grove Park Mall this Christmas Eve, I saw crazed drivers executing Nascar-like stunt maneuve ...

13 years ago

Speak Easy

Is Elf on the Shelf the worst thing to happen to Christmas?

Some parents love Elf on the Shelf — a doll placed strategically throughout the house to spy on kids in the weeks before Christmas ...

13 years ago

Speak Easy

Philly Love Note: the Wanamaker Building

It took a while for me to understand why I love going to Macy’s so much. Aside from whiskey, records, books and sandwiches, I rarel ...

13 years ago

National Interest

Guns in schools? Good for business!

On Meet the Press yesterday, National Rifle Association honcho Wayne LaPierre said: “If it’s crazy to call for putti ...

13 years ago

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