Carter’s life reflected a deep commitment to equality, justice, peace, and human rights. His vision of fair global relations ...

Former President Jimmy Carter's week-long state funeral services began Saturday morning with a trek to his childhood home and the Carter Presidential Center.

Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame ...

Carter’s administration rejected Saint Óscar Romero’s pleas not to provide military aid to the Salvadoran junta before he was assassinated.

To return the canal to Panama, President Jimmy Carter worked to change minds and build a bipartisan coalition that put aside ...

Former President Carter was widely known as a man of faith, a born-again Christian who defined himself as a progressive ...

Jimmy Carter helped expand democracy around the world long after he left the White House. His efforts gave rise to the Carter ...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter defied the furor of U.S. conservatives to negotiate the handover of the Panama Canal to ...

As world leaders mourn the death of former President Jimmy Carter and remark on his political and policy legacy, doctors are remembering his efforts to prevent disease, and his legacy in furthering ...

Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling ...

The canal was turned over to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999. For Carter, the deal signified a new beginning of mutual respect and ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Stuart Eizenstat, a top domestic policy advisor in the Carter White House, about how former President Jimmy Carter put human rights at the center of foreign policy.