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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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Government Accountability

Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, at the Capitol in Washington.   (Caroline Brehman/Pool via AP)
Politics & Policy

Delaware Sen. Chris Coons talks with Supreme Court nominee Barrett ahead of hearings

Ahead of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, U.S. Senator Chris Coons asks one key question: “Why are we doing this?”

6 years ago

A U.S. Census Bureau worker carries a briefcase while knocking on the door of a home in August in Winter Park, Fla. (John Raoux/AP)
Politics & Policy

Appellate judges let 2020 census continue through October

The ruling by the three judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was a split decision for the Trump administration and a coalition of civil rights groups.

6 years ago

Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati. (AP file Photo/Matt Rourke)
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Judge dismisses suit by top Pa. senator’s campaign against Spotlight PA journalist, others

The lawsuit, which Scarnati’s campaign could attempt to refile, could pose a chilling effect on journalists’ and the public’s access to public records.

6 years ago

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a weekly news conference, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Politics & Policy

Pelosi out to block Trump if disputed election ends in House

Pelosi is openly working to block President Donald Trump's advantage if, as he has suggested, he ties up the results of the Nov. 3 election.

6 years ago

Mail-in ballot
Politics & Policy

Countering Trump, US officials defend integrity of election

The statement put them at odds with President Donald Trump’s efforts to discredit the vote.

6 years ago

The White House is seen in the background as sign of the National COVID-19 Remembrance, event at The Ellipse outside of the White House, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Politics & Policy

Poll: Many Americans blame virus crisis on U.S. government

Trump has downplayed the severity and impact of the pandemic in recent months.

6 years ago

A voter casts a mail-in ballot at a drop box in West Chester, Pa., prior to the June 2 primary election. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pa. Dem lawmakers propose measure to punish faithless electoral college voters

Two Democratic state lawmakers want to punish any Pennsylvania electoral college member who votes contrary to the popular vote in the presidential election.

6 years ago

The Pennsylvania state Capitol
Politics & Policy
NBC10

Pa. House cancels session after positive coronavirus test

A member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is in self-isolation while experiencing mild COVID-19 symptoms.

6 years ago

VietLead, a local social justice nonprofit, was one of the recipients of the Asian Mosaic Fund's crowdsourced grants. (ASIAN MOSAIC FUND / FACEBOOK)
Community
Billy Penn

Asian American nonprofits get low share of Philly’s COVID relief grants, so mutual aid orgs step in

The Asian Mosaic Fund’s giving circle has raised $40k.

6 years ago

Benjamin Graff and his son Jacob Graff drop off their mail-in ballots for the Pennsylvania primary election
Politics & Policy

What you need to know about voter rights, fraud and suppression for the 2020 election

The 2020 presidential election itself feels like a fight to ensure the right to a free, fair vote. Here’s what you need to know.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden
Politics & Policy

Ethics experts see national security concern in Trump’s debt

Trump, according to his latest financial disclosure statement, reported that he had 14 loans on 12 properties.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump talks about the Endurance all-electric pickup truck, made in Lordstown, Ohio, at the White House, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Politics & Policy

Trump went even further than other uber-rich to shrink taxes

Trump characteristically pushed those strategies to shrink his tax bill to the limit, perhaps to the breaking point.

6 years ago

(Kalim A. Bhatti/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Could the Pa. GOP bypass the popular vote regardless of who wins? Here’s what we know.

The state Republican Party raised the possibility that the GOP-controlled legislature could choose a slate of presidential electors to cast the state’s votes for Donald Trump.

6 years ago

Wilmington, Delaware (Tim Kiser/Wikimedia Commons)
Politics & Policy

Wilmington, New Castle County still short on participation as census deadline looms

In the midst of a court battle over the date of the census deadline, Delaware leaders are urging residents to stand up and be counted.

6 years ago

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, pictured in 2018, is seen as a front-runner to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. (Rachel Malehorn, rachelmalehorn.smugmug.com via AP)
Politics & Policy

GOP expecting Trump to tap Barrett for Supreme Court

Trump's campaign is preparing to use the latest confirmation fight for maximum political effect.

6 years ago

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