President Biden began his State of the Union speech Thursday night by invoking another president’s address to Congress 83 years ago. “In January 1941,” Biden said, “President Franklin Roosevelt came ...

President Joe Biden reached back in history in his recent State of the Union address, citing a January 1941 speech in which President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called on America to reject isolationism ...

"The primary concern of any government dominated by the humane ideals of democracy is the simple principle that in a land of vast resources no one should be permitted to starve." —Franklin D.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In his 1941 State of the Union address, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt enumerated four essential human freedoms: freedom of ...

A public art initiative marking the 80th anniversary of the U.N. is inviting artists to examine the state of democracy and social justice. The first featured artist is Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, ...

After more than forty years, Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island will finally come to fruition, almost exactly as architect Louis I. Kahn envisioned it.

President Joe Biden reached back in history in his recent State of the Union address, citing a January 1941 speech in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt called on America to reject isolationism and ...