Franklin Roosevelt
Snowden’s disclosure prompts global debate over privacy versus national security
The debate over government surveillance versus individual privacy isn’t confined to the United States. The revelations from Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency leak have prompted investigations and allegations the world over.
Looking Back at FDR’s Legacy Amidst Health Care Battle in the Supreme Court
With the Supreme Court arguments over President Obama’s health care law behind us, we can now look forward and consider what the political repercussions of these historic hearings will be. Anna Sale, reporter for our co-producer WNYC’s politics website, It’s a Free Country, joins us to look back: back upon days when the President of […]
The End of US Dual Ocean Navy Defense?
Congress and Franklin Roosevelt’s administration passed the Two-Ocean Navy Act in 1940, during World War II. Since then, the nation’s domestic military defense has been based on a simultaneous naval defense on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. But with the announcement Thursday of an eight percent decrease in U.S. military spending, there was also the […]
