Former President Jimmy Carter, who died on December 29 at the age of 100, has been laid to rest in his hometown of Plains, ...

A series of recent historical studies have sought to sanitize the many failures of Carter's presidential term by arguing that ...

Jimmy Carter was the perfect candidate for 1976, columnist George Skelton writes, and he was an exceptional ex-president. In ...

For decades, Republicans have reveled in invoking Jimmy Carter’s name to deride Democrats as weak — mockery that has influenced the way Democrats present themselves to voters. By Adam ...

A one-term former governor and peanut farmer from Georgia, Jimmy Carter was hardly the front-runner heading into the 1976 presidential election. He tied for 12 th in early polling among a crowded ...

I did an interview recently about President Jimmy Carter and his impact on Iowa. I answered the question and then turned to something the host had not anticipated. I said that one of the things that ...

At first, Jimmy Carter was a political wizard. But he couldn’t keep the magic act going.

According to his critics, Jimmy Carter was a humanitarian president and a weak leader. He faced enormous challenges that were nearly impossible to resolve through humanitarian policies: the Soviet ...

Jimmy Carter's first 'win' in Iowa was over a chicken dinner The first test of this new partnership came in October 1975 at ...

Mr. Carter witnessed a shift from what had been a solidly Democratic South to one that Republicans, supported by white voters and particularly evangelicals, came to dominate. By Richard Fausset On ...

In the early months of 1976, New Jersey's Democratic Party establishment did not roll out a welcome mat for Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn. But a 27-year-old Ruth Puglisi — now ...

It was a year that shattered a presidency. For Jimmy Carter, the 12 months that culminated in the 1980 general election were marked by economic turmoil, international humiliation and a political ...