Jimmy Carter

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.

The trials of Jimmy Carter.

Carter’s speech heralded a dramatic shift in foreign policy toward a policy of containment of Soviet influence.

The Shah’s reign witnessed years of oppression against the Iranian people, and Carter’s toast added fuel to the fire.

Carter’s speech lays out his commitment to implement human rights into U.S. foreign policy.

Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian student protesters.

Kissinger warned: “This is no issue to face the world on. It looks like pure colonialism.”

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.

The 'human rights president' had some tough political decisions to make regarding Augusto Pinochet in 1979.

Jimmy Carter, skeptical of NASA's shuttle, saved it with funding despite delays and opposition. His Voyager message carries hope deep into space.

The Baptist Georgia governor won evangelical Christian voters in the 1976 presidential election. Next time around, those voters changed sides—for the long haul.

As a worker in the 1970s, I looked forward to a Jimmy Carter administration. By the end of his term in office, I felt betrayed.

The story of credit cards is the story of industry versus regulators. Industry won.

Over the course of decades, social democracy abandoned workers. Then workers abandoned social democracy.

And cost Gerald Ford the presidency.

The former secretary of state is responsible for virtually every American geopolitical disaster of the past half-century.

How America's failures in the Palestinian-Israeli crisis of the 1970s hurt U.S. security and contributed to the current war.