Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame that outlined a new approach to America’s role in the world: Carter said human rights should be a “fundamental tenet of our foreign policy.

Carter met with a group of rabbis who contested his use of the word “apartheid” to describe Israel. And then he went a step further.

As president, Jimmy Carter brokered the peace agreement that removed Israel’s most powerful enemy from the battlefield.

The late centenarian, Jimmy Carter, occupied a difficult position in the line of imperial magistrates we know as US Presidents.  Coming to power in the aftermath of murderous US adventurism in Indochina and the debauching of the presidency by Richard Nixon (“when the president does it,

The family of former President Carter expressed its gratitude for the global expressions of support as it grieves his death at the age of 100 on Sunday. “The outpouring of love and support we have received from around the world confirms what we have known all along — Jimmy Carter’s family extends far beyond

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

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at his home in Plains, Georgia. His death comes more than a year after the former president entered hospice care.

Despite his difficulties in office, Carter had few rivals for accomplishments as a former president. He gained global acclaim as a tireless human rights advocate, winning the respect that eluded him in the White House.

Palestine Peace Not Apartheid. The title was Jimmy Carter’s idea. Peace talks were nonexistent, Israel showed no sign of ending its control over the lives of millions of Palestinians, and the United States was not doing anything to stop it. Carter wanted to be provocative. He succeeded.

While Carter was celebrated for his part in the negotiations, Sadat was lambasted by his own countrymen. Carter said he viewed the Egyptian leader's death at the hands of jihadists as Sadat paying the ultimate price for peace they had brokered in the wooded mountains of Maryland.