FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech outlined his vision for a world in which all people have the essential freedoms of speech, worship, want and fear. Over 80 years later, we are still struggling to achieve ...

"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.

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, ...

In his 1941 State of the Union address, former President Franklin D. Roosevelt listed the four freedoms that society should strive toward: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the goal of “four freedoms” to the world. Those are the freedom of speech and expression, freedom to worship God, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York. (Shutterstock) On a recent drive up New York’s Hudson Valley, I spent half a day at Hyde Park, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ...