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.
“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.
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.
In professor David Leblang’s Politics of Immigration course, the usual chorus of clicking keyboards is nonexistent. Instead, you hear the soft scratch of pencils and pens as Leblang guides students through the complexities of human migration.
By multiple measures—including the use of civilizational framing, explicit demographic objectives, and terminology borrowed from far-right movements—the Trump administration’s approach appears to transform American immigration policy discourse away from security and towards radical nativism.
