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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

"That says it all:" Big Tech takes prime seats at Trump inauguration

It's an "age-old practice" for powerful businesspeople to cozy up to an incoming president with expectations to benefit, either in terms of shaping governmental policies or advancing their own interests, said Russell Riley, co-chair of the University of Virginia's Miller Center's Presidential Oral History Program.

Russell Riley

Israel and Hamas agree Gaza ceasefire deal

Mara Rudman discusses the Gaza ceasefire deal.

Mara Rudman

‘Subsumed into the story of Trump’: How future historians may view Joe Biden

In retrospect, Biden will likely be viewed as a “respite” from the chaos and disruption caused by Trump’s overturning long-established political norms, rebranding the once-staid Republican Party as a rowdy working-class juggernaut and upending the post-WWII international order, said Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.

Russell Riley