Politics
Jimmy Carter’s public goodbye started in Plains, Ga., where the 39th U.S. president’s life began more than 100 years ago.
The late president, in Sudan in 2010, often went to places with refugees, poverty, disease and despair to see and bear witness like the Bible school teacher he was back home.
World & Nation
Letters to the Editor
A reader asked the president for a birthday greeting for a friend. Surprisingly, she got a reply, a testament to Jimmy Carter’s decency.
Opinion
At a time of deep political division, Americans find unity in mourning Jimmy Carter, a president universally praised for his decency.
My first encounter with the former president’s sharp wit was when I interviewed him for my college humor magazine — but it wouldn’t be the last.
Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer and little-known Georgia governor who became the 39th president of the United States, has died.
Even Republicans, who have used President Carter to attack Democrats for nearly 50 years, have had to reckon with revisionism.
Music
The pop superstar performed songs from her Grammy-nominated ‘Cowboy Carter’ album at halftime of an NFL game streamed on Netflix from Houston’s NRG Stadium.
California
Jimmy Carter was the perfect candidate for 1976, columnist George Skelton writes, and he was an exceptional ex-president. In between? That’s the problem.