As a member of the elite, informal club of U.S. presidents past and present, Jimmy Carter was uniquely positioned to do ...

Jimmy Carter was, first and foremost, a Southerner — the best kind of Southerner. He represented the New South we never quite ...

The 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, James Earl Carter Jr., died Sunday at the age of 100. His life ended where it began, in Plains, Georgia. He left and returned to the tiny town many times as ...

Back a few years ago, in one of my fitful attempts at retirement, I drove through a lot of rain to Plains, Georgia, where I ...