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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

Trump’s Return Signals ‘Second Chapter’ of New Cold War, Says UK Expert at Taipei Forum

Mara Rudman, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, noted that countries worldwide are reassessing their trade and economic policies in response to the Trump administration’s aggressive tariff strategies. “Effective leaders,” she said, “are those who understand both their national goals and the shifting realities of dealing with the U.S.”

Mara Rudman

An (almost) invisible first lady

"It's an unfair criticism of Melania Trump to give the impression that she's the one and only modern-day first lady who prefers not to live in a goldfish bowl. Especially during her first term with a young son."

Barbara Perry

America Is TORCHING Its Credibility

Eliot and Eric welcome Larry Summers, former President of Harvard University and former Secretary of Treasury in the Clinton Administration. They discuss why his prescient advice about the dangers of inflation were ignored by the Biden Administration and whether or not Democrats have learned the lesson that inflation affects all Americans with corrosive political effects.

Eric Edelman