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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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Beth Lyon is the pastor of Glenside United Church of Christ. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

As hate crimes increase, faith leaders come to Philly security summit

For the third straight year, hate crimes are happening more frequently.  They increased by about 17 percent in 2017, according to U.S au ...

8 years ago

Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Guests: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Judy Melinek Today, we meet writer ...

Air Date: November 14, 2018 10:00 am

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Radio Times
Science

#ThisIsOurLane

Guest: Judy Melinek A social media fight has broken out between the NRA and physicians over a paper calling for a ...

8 years ago

Listen 13:30
Messages are shown on a bulletin board at The Neighborhood Church in Chico, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. Numerous postings fill the message board as evacuees, family and friends search for people missing from the northern California wildfire. (Gillian Flaccus/AP)
Community

Wildfire death toll rises as search for missing continues

Authorities on Tuesday reported six more fatalities from the Northern California blaze, bringing the total number of dead so far to 48.

8 years ago

A man is helped onto a stretcher by emergency personnel after a car crashed into a Social Security office, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018 in Egg Harbor, N.J. Police say the driver was attempting to park when the car crashed into the building, entering a lobby where many people were waiting. It wasn't immediately clear how serious the injuries were. (Craig Matthews/The Press of Atlantic City via AP)
Community

Car crashes into N.J. Social Security office; at least 16 hurt

Authorities say the crash appears to be an accident. Its exact cause remains under investigation.

8 years ago

Consent Education (Grace HeeJung Kim/NPR)
NPR
Education

How schools can reduce sexual violence

8 years ago

A sign still stands at a McDonald's restaurant burned in the Camp Fire, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, in the northern California town of Paradise. (John Locher/AP)
Community

Holding out slim hope as crews search for more fire dead

"I'm staying hopeful," she said. "Until the final word comes, you keep fighting against it."

8 years ago

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, prepares to lead the USCCB's annual fall meeting, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, in Baltimore. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)
Community

Bishops will delay votes on steps to combat sex abuse crisis

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced it will delay for at least several months any votes on proposed new steps to address the clergy sex abuse crisis.

8 years ago

Doctors have been tweeting about their experiences treating victims of gun violence after the NRA mocked a position paper by the American College of Physicians. Above, the NRA logo in 2017 at an outdoor sports trade show in Harrisburg, Penn. (Dominick Reuter/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

After NRA mocks doctors, physicians reply: ‘This is our lane’

8 years ago

Police investigate a drive-by shooting in Germantown on Oct. 3, 2018. Five young men aged 19 to 23 were shot. One died.
Community

As gunfire continues killing Philly teens, city musters new approaches to violence

So far this year, nearly 30 minors have been fatally shot in Philadelphia. Last year, 22 teens were shot and killed.

8 years ago

Listen 6:49
As the Camp Fire burns nearby, a scorched car rests by gas pumps near Pulga, Calif., on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Community

Devastation as deadly California blaze tallies grim stats

31 people have died so far in wildfires in both Northern and Southern California.

8 years ago

The walls of a scorched antique shop stand on Skyway after a wildfire burned through Paradise, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Community

Deadly fire leveled a California town in less than a day

Not a single resident of Paradise can be seen anywhere in town after most of them fled the burning Northern California community that may be lost forever.

8 years ago

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks in during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018. Pelosi says she's confident she will win enough support to be elected speaker of the House next year and that she is the best person for the job. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Democrats promise congressional action on gun control

Measures including expanded background checks and a ban on assault-style weapons are likely to reach the House floor.

8 years ago

Attendees stand during a moment of silence during the Rally for Peace and Tree of Life Victims, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, at Point State Park in downtown Pittsburgh. (Alexandra Wimley/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
Community

Victims of synagogue shooting remembered in Pittsburgh park

Nearly 2 weeks after a gunman shot to death 11 people inside a Pittsburgh synagogue, their lives were remembered Friday with a moment of silence and rally for peace in a park.

8 years ago

People comfort each other outside a bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., where a gunman opened fire and killed 12.
NPR
Community

12 victims killed in shooting at country music bar in Thousand Oaks, California

A shooter killed 12 people and injured several more at a country music bar in Ventura County, Calif., late Wednesday, police said.

8 years ago

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