Though Carter was more critical of Israel and supportive of Arabs than ... This column was adapted from the author's book “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life.” Jonathan Alter Jonathan Alter ...

One of the world’s most complex regions hosted the humble Southerner’s biggest triumph and most stinging defeat, as seen on front pages of The Washington Post.

Since Carter's passing, there has been an outpouring of goodwill for the former president, whose legacy invokes images of peanut farms and the wooden frames of houses he helped build. But for many Salvadoran Americans, like me, his memory is … complicated.

Zionist—an ignorant idealogue who wrongly believed that Israeli counter-terrorism policies harmed the “human rights” of the Palestinian people. Carter was

The late President Jimmy Carter presided over a key landmark in the Arab-Israeli peace process, the 1979 Camp David Accords signed by Egypt and Israel. Carter’s lifelong interest in resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict is an analog for his complicated legacy in foreign policy and human rights.

It is all a very bleak prospect. This is why Camp David became Jimmy Carter’s deepest regret. He wanted more for Israel than for it to be continuously at war. He wanted peace, not apartheid.

Carter was widely known as a man of faith, with his post-presidency defined by images of the Baptist Sunday School teacher building homes for low-income people.

I came with my own preconceptions of Jimmy Carter: the failed one-term president and faux humanitarian who had accused Israel of apartheid. I expected to leave with feelings of bitterness and ...

In 1994, Bill Clinton was in office in the midst of a standoff with North Korea over the communist country's nuclear program. The U.S. was floating the idea of sanctions – and even considered a preemptive strike on North Korea's nuclear facilities to destroy their capabilities.

Carter’s impulse to heal and seek peace was evident on his second day in office, when he pardoned all who had left the country to evade the Vietnam War draft. He went on to conclude the historic Camp David Accords and a later treaty bringing peace and establishing diplomatic relations between Israel and Egypt.

Following the passing of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, on Dec. 29, President Joe Biden declared Thursday, Jan. 9, as a National Day of Mourning to honor his legacy.

Palestinian activists in the northern West Bank have planted an olive grove in memory of the late U.S. President Jimmy Carter, describing him as a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause