Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter is known as a eradicator of disease and champion for world peace, but he also supported environmental efforts closer to home.

It’s a political movement willing to align with anyone to win.

Some lessons for Joe Biden from the ’70s presidents who lived it.

The last from-the-top critique of American overconsumption generated a massive backlash.

The Carter-Baker report was intended to strengthen Americans’ trust in the electoral process. It’s become a weapon for right-wing attacks on voting rights.

William Eggleston’s photographs of the South on the eve of the 1976 election captured an eerie quiet.

Rick Perlstein's "Reaganland" charts the conservative counter-revolution that moved the US to the right.

Rick Perlstein’s epic series shows political history and cultural history cannot be disentangled.

History shows that this blockbuster event is merely a test of organizational strength in one small state.

What does winning in Iowa really mean?

The borderlands have “been transformed into a vast graveyard of the missing.”

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Cold War.

White evangelical Christians are among President Trump’s most important supporters. But more than 40 years ago, they were on the margins of American politics.

Cold War politics empowered democracy — and dictatorship.

Your favorite light sweater was worn to war, before getting picked up by academics, Mr. Rogers, and Kurt Cobain.

Make America reality-based again.

Donald Trump has been playing a lot of golf since becoming president. Can his habit be explained by his "sky-high extroversion?"

In 1979, Carter's "malaise speech," shaped by sociological insights, sought national unity but clashed with Reagan's appeal to individualism.

The Japanese American National Museum embraces the Japanese-American experience in all its permutations.

In 1978, Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act. It gave rise to some truly miserable air travel—and neoliberalism.