1A

1A

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  • Justice Stephen Breyer On A Changing Court
    Justice Breyer is the 108th person to sit on the Supreme Court and, soon, he'll be welcoming the 114th — Justice Anthony Kennedy's replacement.

    With so much commentary and debate expected to surround the Supreme Court in the weeks and months ahead, we present a view from the inside, courtesy of Justice Breyer.

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    30 min
  • The News Roundup For July 6, 2018
    July Fourth took one day out of the workweek for most of us, but the news didn't stop. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is out, but another Supreme Court Justice is soon to be in.

    We also hear from a cave diver with updates on the cave rescue in Thailand where 12 boys and their coach have been trapped, and we talk trade wars.

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    1 hr 30 min
  • A Retired Navy SEAL Shares 'The Way Of The Warrior Kid'
    John Willink, better known as "Jocko," served 20 years as a Navy SEAL, rising in the ranks to lead training for all SEALs on the West Coast. Willink has now written a series of children's novels called Way of the Warrior Kid. What can he tell us about manhood? How should we raise boys?

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    30 min
  • Jimmy Carter: A Former President, A Person Of Faith
    For this July 4 holiday, we're rebroadcasting our conversation with former President Jimmy Carter from March of 2018.

    Religion has been part of his life since he was a child, but his faith was tested most recently in 2015, when he announced he'd been diagnosed with cancer. Today he's 93 and on a mission to get people to examine their own relationships with faith.

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    35 min
  • W. Kamau Bell On Comedy And Politics
    W. Kamau Bell's comedy has always been political. He had a short-lived show called "Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell," and he has called what he does "use[ing] jokes to fight for the people who don't get a fair shake in the world."

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    35 min
  • What Is American Food? A Chef Traveled The Country To Find Out
    Chef Edward Lee says his new book is "the story of American food." It is not a glossy book of food photography (there aren't any food photos in the book). Instead, it's a memoir, a history book and a travel guide.

    "Food is nothing without people and people are nothing without stories," he says.

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    35 min
  • The News Roundup For June 29, 2018
    Supreme Court decisions (and a retirement), another deadly shooting, fights over civility and elections around the world. All this and more on the News Roundup.

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    1 hr 29 min
  • Meet The Two Friends Who Dropped Out Of College To Take On Bots And Fake News
    Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte are the co-founders of RoBhat Labs, a tech startup that's helping Twitter users wade through fake news. It's something they're seemingly able to do better than Twitter itself.

    "The fact that we can build something like this and empower users, it really baffles us that Twitter isn't doing the same," Phadte says.

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    30 min
  • Captivating America: Civility War
    We tried to have a conversation about civility in politics and ... well, it got lit.

    As one listener put it: "That was the most enthralling, informative, suspenseful, engaging, action-packed and exciting thing I have ever heard in NPR history."

    Join the conversation (and don't worry, it's still going...) on Twitter, we're @1A.

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    43 min
  • Women In Tech: Is There A Wave Coming?
    Today we talk to three women who are trying to do something about the gender gap in Silicon Valley. Reshma Saujani is the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code; Natalia Oberti Noguera is the founder and CEO of Pipeline Angels; and 16-year-old Amanda Southworth is the founder, director and programmer at Astra Labs.

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    35 min

About 1A

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Listening to the news can feel like a journey. But 1A guides you beyond the headlines – and cuts through the noise. Let's get to the heart of the story, together – on 1A.

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