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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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President Donald Trump walks away from the podium after speaking in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House
Politics & Policy

Trump blocks release of Dems’ memo countering GOP on FBI Russian probe

Trump's rejection of the Democratic memo is in contrast to his enthusiastic embrace of releasing the Republican document, which he pledged to make public before he read it.

8 years ago

The United States team walks in the Parade of Athletes during the Winter Olympics opening ceremony on Friday. The team has more athletes than any nation at the Games and it's the most diverse of any U.S. winter squad, in terms of both race and gender. There are 108 women on the team, more than any other U.S. Winter Olympics team in the past.
NPR
Lifestyle

Bigger than ever, and more diverse: Team USA at the 2018 Winter Olympics

This year's team is the most diverse of any U.S. winter squad, in terms of both race and gender: The 108 women on this team are the most of any U.S. team at a Winter Games.

8 years ago

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., (left), chats with Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, (right), at a congressional event in October 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Senators reach two-year budget deal

Senate leaders have reached a bipartisan budget agreement to increase military and domestic spending levels for two-years.

8 years ago

Thousands of immigrants and supporters join the Defend DACA March in Los Angeles in September to oppose the President Trump's ordered end to DACA protections.
NPR
Politics & Policy

NPR poll: 2-in-3 support legal status for DREAMers; majority oppose building a wall

Partisan dividing lines were sharp, the survey found, and clearly run throughout the immigration debate.

8 years ago

(From left) Tommy Shiels, Dennis Hayden, John Houlihan and Thomas Ring attend the New York Irish Center's weekly luncheon for seniors in Queens, N.Y. Many attendees say they support the 2020 census asking white people about their origins. (Hansi Lo Wang/NPR)
NPR
Politics & Policy

2020 Census will ask white people more about their ethnicities

The data play a critical role in drawing legislative districts, enforcing civil rights laws and analyzing health statistics.

8 years ago


Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, not the unverified Russia dossier, is what triggered the FBI's investigation, according to a secret memo released on Friday. (Getty Image)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Nunes memo: What’s in it and what’s not

After days of buildup amid a political firestorm, House Republicans released a controversial memo on Friday.

8 years ago

President Trump 
(Win McNamee/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Controversial Nunes memo released following formal approval from Trump

Read the memo below.

8 years ago

Members of AFSCME District Council 33, Philadelphia, gather outside City Hall for a moment of silence to remember Echol Cole and Robert Walker, two sanitation workers whose deaths 50 years ago sparked a national movement for workers' rights.
Community

Philadelphia, nation mark 50 years since deaths of Memphis sanitation workers

The deaths of Echol Cole and Robert Walker ignited the strike that drew the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis where he was assassinated in April 1968.

8 years ago

A report from the Human Rights Watch makes the case that federal law enforcers, police and local prosecutors are concealing the origins of evidence and intelligence in scores of criminal cases, especially drug arrests.
(Fantastic Studio/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Report alleges police use secret evidence collected by feds to make arrests

8 years ago

A political storm is brewing in Washington over the release of a much-discussed secret memo alleging abuses by the FBI and Justice Department. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

What you need to know about the GOP snooping memo controversy

The latest political sandstorm in the Russia saga is over four pages of paper that have never seen the light of day.

8 years ago

This photo provided by a member of Congress, shows a crash site near Crozet, Va., Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018.   A chartered train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck south of Charlottesville, Virginia on Wednesday, lawmakers said. (AP Photo)
Community

Train carrying GOP lawmakers strikes trash truck; 1 killed

Officials gave varying figures on the number hurt. But Amtrak said two crew members and three passengers were taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

8 years ago

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald is photographed at the agency's headquarters in Atlanta, GA on Dec. 5, 2017. (Melissa Golden for The Washington Post/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

CDC Director resigns due to ‘complex’ financial entanglements

Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resigned Wednesday following reports that she bought shares in a tobacco company.

8 years ago

President Donald Trump gestures as delivers his first State of the Union address in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol to a joint session of Congress Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018 in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan applaud.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Trump’s acoustic demagoguery stokes our state of disunion

The biggest thigh-slapper of last night's State of the Union was Trump's apparent belief that unplugging his vocal amplifier would somehow soften his demagoguery.

8 years ago

President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018.
Politics & Policy

Trump State of the Union unites on infrastructure, divides on immigration

President Trump's State of the Union united Democrats and Republicans on infrastructure, but immigration proposal is doing the opposite.

8 years ago

President Donald Trump delivering his first State of the Union address, January 30, 2018.
Politics & Policy

Trump calls for optimism in spite of warnings of danger in State of the Union

Trump addressed the nation with tensions running high on Capitol Hill.

8 years ago

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