Today, on Leonard Lopate at Large, fresh of the heels of Amazon’s retreat from building a new facility in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens after widespread local opposition, Glenn Greenwald considers the role that the man at the heart of a surveillance scandal has had in funding government efforts on the same front.
“Amazon, the company that has made Jeff Bezos the planet’s richest human being, is a critical partner for the U.S. Government in building an ever-more invasive, militarized and sprawling surveillance state.” Read more in Glenn Greenwald’s latest article for The Intercept, the publication he co-founded.
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard welcomes the assistant curator of printed books and bindings at the Morgan Library John McQuillen discussing the...
Leonard’s conversation today is with Dr. Ted Rueter on noise, specifically noise pollution in the city. Dr. Ted Rueter started Noise Free America: A...
Today, on Leonard Lopate At Large, Leonard and Brian will discuss Brian Abrams’s new book “OBAMA: An Oral History 2009-2017,” the first comprehensive look...