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Donald Trump at Half-Staff Jan. 17, 2025
"When I stand here today, about to take the Oath of Office, the flags at half-staff remind me of the... Read More
Carter's Kindest Media Eulogists Were Rough on Reagan Jan. 10, 2025
In all the somber coverage of Jimmy Carter's death, the audience could and should expect the tone of... Read More
Jimmy Carter and the Unraveling of American Culture Jan. 08, 2025
An essay appeared recently in The Wall Street Journal under the headline "What Happens When a Whole ... Read More
Jimmy Carter's Light Exposes Donald Trump's Darkness Jan. 08, 2025
You're not fooling me, Jimmy Carter. You did that on purpose! Dying when you did, I mean. You chose ... Read More
Carter's Greatest Conflicts vs. Reagan's Jan. 08, 2025
When President Jimmy Carter ran for reelection in 1980, he had to compete against former California ... Read More
An Easy One Dies in the Big Easy Jan. 03, 2025
NEW ORLEANS QUESTION: What did you do for those beads? ANSWER: I got run over by a truck and now I'm... Read More
Jimmy Carter Had the Best Post-Presidency Dec. 30, 2024
WASHINGTON — "Decency. Decency. Decency," President Joe Biden responded when a reporter asked ... Read More
That '70s Show -- Is Biden Taking America Back to the Age of Jimmy Carter? May. 07, 2024
Everything that is happening in our fractured nation today seems so worrisomely reminiscent of Ameri... Read More
All the Conspiracy That's Fit to Print Mar. 20, 2023
When is a single-source story good enough for The New York Times? When it appears to confirm a 40-ye... Read More
Give Credit to Jimmy Carter Feb. 24, 2023
Jimmy Carter, the 39th and the longest-living U.S. president, has chosen to enter hospice care at ag... Read More
Jimmy Carter's Legacy Feb. 24, 2023
In 2015, at the age of 90, former president Jimmy Carter released a statement saying that he had met... Read More
Jimmy Carter Was a Right-winger Feb. 24, 2023
Jimmy Carter will almost certainly be remembered as a liberal lion. That reputation, however, stems ... Read More
Why Not the Worst? Jun. 16, 2022
WASHINGTON — For several years now, I have been writing my memoirs in my spare time and have b... Read More
The Accidentally Elected May. 20, 2022
The last time the American economic situation was this bad, then-President James Earl Carter Jr. got... Read More
Are You Better Off Today Than You Were 10 Months Ago? Nov. 16, 2021
During the 1980 presidential campaign, there was but one debate between the incumbent president, Dem... Read More
Will Joe Biden Learn Jimmy Carter's Inflation Lesson? Nov. 16, 2021
In the 1980 presidential campaign, the Republican challenger, Ronald Reagan, said, "A recession is w... Read More
Joe Biden Is No Jimmy Carter Sep. 03, 2021
"The worst president since Jimmy Carter." You see a lot of that sort of thing if you regularly read ... Read More
You, Carter! You're Hired! Jul. 30, 2021
A note I made for this column: Sitting in a bar. Watching television news. Guy next to me, guy with ... Read More
Welcome Back, Carter. Except Add Dementia. May. 16, 2021
Remember the old 1970s sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter"? It aired on ABC from 1975 to 1979. The preside... Read More
Inflation and Stagflation -- the Great Instructors Apr. 29, 2021
Stagflation, which reigned during the presidency of Jimmy Carter, occurs during an unusual confluenc... Read More
