The Tennessean's letters reflect the views of the authors and add to public discourse. At issue today: The legacy of ...

Famously competitive and sometimes abrasive, Jimmy Carter had many political rivalries, but he also was determined to ...

Former President Jimmy Carter's remains are being taken to the US Capitol for Congress and the public to pay their respects.

By beating Ted Kennedy in 1980, Jon Keller says Jimmy Carter opened the door for Michael Dukakis, Paul Tsongas and John Kerry ...

The pair battled it out in 1980 when Carter, seeking re-election, was challenged in the Democrat primary and convention by Sen. Kennedy.

A hostage crisis in Iran, unrelenting inflation and a primary challenge from Ted Kennedy ensured Carter’s defeat in the 1980 ...

I will always remember Jimmy Carter for the sense of decency that he brought to the Oval Office and for his tireless ...

His failings on healthcare damaged Carter's presidency, but his focus on cost containment was right — then and now.

The Tennessean's letters reflect the views of the authors and add to public discourse. At issue today: The legacy of President Jimmy Carter.

Sally Susman reflects on how Jimmy Carter’s status changed so significantly post-presidency—and what lessons we can learn ...

There was a period from roughly 1960, with the Kennedy-Nixon debates, until 1991, with the first Gulf War, when broadcast ...

Patrick Kennedy said he visited the Carter Center in Atlanta several times, and Jimmy Carter always made time to meet privately with him, which Kennedy interpreted as a gesture of peace to his father.