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

As the country remembers former President Jimmy Carter, here are five significant connections between the 39th president and ...

Jimmy Carter told his son he already had. Despite what Patrick Kennedy called their “huge mega-clash,” Carter attended Ted Kennedy’s 2009 funeral. Patrick Kennedy said he believed Carter ...

BOSTON - Jimmy Carter was little-known nationally when ... an epic showdown between Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy and the incumbent that made a big impact on national and local politics.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, has died. He leaves behind a legacy as a dogged peacemaker and a decent, ethical ...

It’s easy to forget after so much time has passed, but his presidency began with great promise—which still resonates today.

Books by Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy sit side by side on the author’s bookshelf. (Photo Peter Lucas) “A great democracy practices what it preaches,” he said. When the Senate approved a key ...

I t was the summer of 2015 when former president Jimmy Carter revealed a dire diagnosis: melanoma had spread to his liver and ...

His postpresidential greatness is what will be remembered. But he was a shrewder politician than people realize.

In November 2010, former President Jimmy Carter visited my office in the White House, where I had just taken up the post of ...

When former President Jimmy Carter died at home in Plains ... fending off a Democratic primary challenge from Sen. Ted Kennedy while also campaigning against Republican opponent Ronald Reagan ...

It was the first time many Americans saw Rupert Murdoch using his news outlets to advance his interests — and a lesson in how a media mogul's outside financial ties can taint the editorial product.