Carter, who died Sunday at 100, was an unassuming but charismatic Georgia peanut farmer who rode post-Watergate anger to oust Gerald Ford from the White House in 1976 and become America's 39th ...

Carter’s advisors viewed Khomeini as a stabilizing figure and an ally to American interests — a catastrophic misjudgment.” ...

President Jimmy Carter appointed more judges to the federal bench than any other president has done in a single term.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was honored with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital before a second ...

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

I turned 18. I had graduated high school in May, started my college career that August and, in November, I voted for the ...

In November 2010, former President Jimmy Carter visited my office in the White House, where I had just taken up the post of national security adviser. It was a reunion of sorts: at age 22, I had begun ...

Truth is, Carter was part of two endangered groups — populist Southern Democrats and progressive Southern Baptists. In 1976, ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States ... to receive medical treatment in the United States on humanitarian grounds. In April 1980, Carter sent an elite rescue team ...

Carter declared that he was no longer a Southern Baptist and threw his support behind a competing movement of moderates.

“Jimmy Carter was always an outsider,” said biographer Jonathan Alter, explaining how Carter capitalized on the fallout of the Vietnam War and Watergate scandal that toppled Richard Nixon. “The ...