Jimmy Carter

Highest-level national security documents reveal a tough-minded, detail-oriented president.

He tackled segregation in the nation’s public colleges and fraud in student-aid programs, and established the Department of Education.

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, gave visibility to devastating health problems that are often invisible.

As President, he told us that we needed to shift to solar power. We should have listened to him then.

His unwillingness to take a radical stance forced him to respond to events by imposing austerity and doing little to strengthen labor.

Jimmy Carter is associated with an idealistic “human rights agenda.” In reality, he was paving the way for Ronald Reagan’s aggressive anti-communism.

Common conceptions of Carter are all wrong because they don’t acknowledge a crucial reality: he was a conservative.

There’s a reason the 39th president is still revered by former Soviet dissidents.

You can argue over whether Jimmy Carter was America’s greatest president, but he was undoubtedly one of the greatest Americans to ever become president.

At the height of George W. Bush’s War on Terror, Jimmy Carter had the courage to call out Israel for its human rights abuses.

Carter’s austerity was part of a bigger project. It didn’t really have much to do with environmentalism.

In 1978, Carter protected 56M Alaskan acres, tripled wilderness lands, championed conservation, and foresaw climate risks, leaving a lasting green legacy.

Carter’s work in Zimbabwe forms a significant and underappreciated part of his legacy.

Historical experts and former Carter advisers fact-check the critics who have compared Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter.

A conversation with presidential biographers Jonathan Alter and Kai Bird.

The right’s facile comparisons of the two presidents miss the vastly different circumstances facing Biden and distort Carter’s record.

Jonathan Alter on Jimmy Carter ditching politics for truth.

Gains made under Carter’s presidential leadership in the early 1980s might have bought the planet precious time.

On a documentary in which stars from Bob Dylan to Nile Rodgers discuss how music played a vital role in the unknown politician’s rise to power.

Forty years ago he announced a new American doctrine of aggressive Middle East interventionism that never went away.