The carnage in Ukraine must be laid at the former president’s doorstep.
Jimmy Carter
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How Jimmy Carter Started America’s Afghanistan Folly
Some forgotten history goes a long way toward explaining our longest war.
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Inside Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s 75th Wedding Anniversary
A recently rehabilitated president celebrates with friends and family.
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What Joe Biden Learned from Ronald Reagan About Governing
The president understands the importance of serving your base and passing bills that really matter to them.
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Walter Mondale Changed the Vice Presidency
Before him, it was often a humiliating do-nothing job.
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The Mondale I Knew
As a Jimmy Carter speechwriter, I saw the Minnesotan as a groundbreaker—the first modern VP. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris owe him a debt.
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Jimmy Carter’s Powerful Message on Voting Rights
He’s monitored more than 100 elections around the world. Now he’s taking on GOP efforts to suppress the vote in the State of Georgia and across the country.
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What’s Wrong With One-Term Presidents?
Leave aside Donald Trump. For swaths of American history presidents being reelected was unusual. Maybe that’s not so bad.
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How Jimmy Carter Kept Me Sane
I wrote my Carter biography during the toxic Trump years. The Georgian’s kindness and honesty are an inspiration for me and should be for America, too.
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The Spy Was a Grifter
How con artist Garrison Courtney exploited a federal government brimming with unaccountable contractors.
