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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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Politics

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Money

Pa. lawmakers’ bid to yank JUA money continues — with a twist

The plan would fold the Joint Underwriting Association into the state Insurance Department despite the association's claims that it's a separate entity.

8 years ago

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, speaks during an event on Capitol Hill in 2016. Lee is the only member of the Senate on Trump's list. (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Trump says he will nominate new Supreme Court Justice from this list

Here is a look at who is under consideration.

8 years ago

Efforts to legalize marijuana for recreational use were defeated in the Delaware House Wednesday evening. (Zoë Read/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Delaware marijuana legalization fails by four votes in House

Recreational marijuana advocates could not attract the 25 votes needed for passage. The tally was 21-15 in favor of legalization, but five House Democrats abstained.

8 years ago

Renee Tartaglione exits the federal courthouse in Philadelphia Wednesday. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Family pleads for mercy, sentencing delayed in Renee Tartaglione’s $2 million scam

A jury last year convicted Renee Tartaglione on 53 charges including theft, fraud and tax evasion.

8 years ago

Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy is seen during a ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House April 10, 2017. Earlier in the day Neil Gorsuch, 49, was sworn in as the 113th Associate Justice in a private ceremony at the Supreme Court. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Supreme court to lose its swing voter: Justice Anthony Kennedy to retire

Kennedy announced his retirement Wednesday, setting the stage for what promises to be an epic political battle over his replacement.

8 years ago

Members of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers at a center city rally. The U.S. Supreme Court decision Wednesday could cripple the political influence of teachers' unions. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, file)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Pa. teachers unions could feel brunt of Supreme Court decision

Conservative groups cheered the decision as a triumph for free speech.

8 years ago

Listen 3:41
Members of the Delaware House discuss the FY 2019 budget bill, which was approved surprisingly  early. (Zoë Read/WHYY)
Money

Delaware General Assembly approves fiscal ’19 budget

The Delaware General Assembly, in an unusually early move, has approved a $4.27 billion budget bill for the fiscal year that starts July 1.

8 years ago

People gather at the Supreme Court awaiting a decision in an Illinois union dues case, Janus v. AFSCME, on Monday. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Supreme Court deals blow to government unions

SCOTUS ruled Wednesday that government workers who choose not to join a union cannot be charged for the cost of collective bargaining.

8 years ago

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, right, and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, left, talk as they switch places at the podium during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Monday, June 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

The “civility” debate

Guests: Tom Scocca, Sarah Sobieraj Since the disrupted dining experiences of a few Trump administration officials ...

Air Date: June 27, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:56
N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy says he will focus on a measure to gradually bring the minimum wage up to $15. That would fulfill one of his campaign promises. (Courtesy of Edwin J. Torres/Governor's Office.)
Politics & Policy

Murphy says he cannot sign legislators’ $36.5B budget

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday he cannot sign the Legislature's $36.5 billion budget because it relies on what he calls unsustainable revenue.

8 years ago

Avalon, Cape May County, New Jersey in 2015. (Alan Tu/WHYY)
Community

Merging N.J. towns could move beyond glacierlike pace with government support

One proposal calls for forcing towns with fewer than 5,000 residents to merge with a neighboring one.

8 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

30 years of data show how much the U.S. has warmed. Now the race is on to adapt

Eastern Pa., New Jersey and Delaware have seen a rise of about 2 degrees.

8 years ago

A 2-year-old Honduran girl cries as an official searches her mother in McAllen, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border, earlier this month. For many, the image has become indelibly associated with a Trump administration policy that for weeks separated migrant children from their parents — but the girl's father says she was not separated from her mother. (John Moore/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Crying toddler on widely shared ‘Time’ cover was not separated from mother

Nevertheless, Time's editor-in-chief said he stands by the decision to use the image on the magazine's cover.

8 years ago

In 2016, Donald Trump captured 68 percent of the vote in West Virginia, a state hit hard by opioid overdoses. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Analysis finds geographic overlap in opioid use and Trump support In 2016

The study has limitations and can't establish that opioid use was a definitive factor in how people voted.

8 years ago

Darwin Mejia, 7, saw his mother for the first time early Friday, reuniting with Beata Mariana de Jesus Mejia-Mejia at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport after they were separated at the border by U.S. agents (Patrick Semansky/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Mother and son reunite at airport; U.S. had split them because of migrant status

To gain their release from custody and last night's reunion, the woman sued the U.S. government.

8 years ago

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