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America Still Needs Jimmy Carter’s Health Care Agenda—Even If It Flopped

Carter’s willingness to tackle the politically perilous task of trying to rein in health care costs offers a template for the kind of leadership and focus needed to address the health care system’s enduring flaws in 2024.

Guian McKee

Remembering Jimmy Carter

“Some consider him to be the nation’s greatest former president,” wrote Robert A. Strong of the Miller Center, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that focuses on presidential scholarship.

Robert Strong

Jimmy Carter’s Legacy as a Champion of Peace, Public Health, and Affordable Housing

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, who tirelessly championed peacekeeping and humanitarian causes after leaving the Oval Office, died on Sunday. He was 100.

Robert Strong

Miller Center Strategic Plan (FY26-30)

The economic data isn’t fake. But it is measuring the wrong things.

"For Trump, the risk is clear: If he continues to insist the economy is strong simply because headline numbers look good, he will repeat Biden’s mistake of governing through aggregates, rather than lived experience. And if Trump ignores looming affordability pressures, including expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, he hands Democrats a ready-made argument heading into the 2026 midterms."

Chris Lu

Trump’s National Security Strategy: Atlas Shrugs

Filled with chest-thumping pomposity, shrill rhetoric (and more than a whiff of white nationalist/supremacist idiom), President Trump's new national security strategy marks a sharp break not only with the post–Cold War trajectory of American strategy, but more broadly with the direction of U.S. national security strategy since 1941. With 27 instances of Trump’s name in a mere 29 pages of text, it is a strategy document worthy of North Korea.

Eric Edelman