1A is a show for a changing America.
Every day, 1A's host convenes a conversation about the most important issues of our time. The show takes a deep and unflinching look at America, bringing context and insight to stories unfolding across the country and the world.
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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1A is produced by WAMU 88.5, and distributed by NPR.
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The government studies the side effects of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Protests break out in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota after a white police officer kills a Black man.
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Okorafor is the author of more than two dozen books, comics and short stories.
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By many estimates, we’d reduce our carbon footprint by tens of thousands of tons if we didn't send a "thank you" email. But does individual action really matter for a global problem?
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What have we learned since the attack? What haven't we learned?
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Police shot and killed Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota as the trial of Derek Chauvin continues in Minneapolis.
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Maybe we got closer to friends than you had before. Maybe we broke off friendships or let them fade away with time.
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President Biden is looking to redefine what we mean by infrastructure by including social services, too – like nursing homes and child care.
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We're talking to the people (and Muppets) behind "Rainbow Connection" in this edition of The Sounds Of America.
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Some 492,000 cases of COVID-19 among inmates and staff have been confirmed in America's corrections facilities. That's likely an undercount.