Recently deceased former President Jimmy Carter grew up close to the land, hunting, fishing, and farming his family’s property near Plains, Ga. From those experiences Carter developed an ethic of ...

Jimmy Carter, after a successful term as governor of Georgia, returned to his home in Plains. Instead of resuming full-time peanut farming, he embarked on an unlikely campaign for the presidency of ...

The crowd roared, stymieing the opening words of an awkward statesman from Georgia who stood before the Democratic National ...

Jones, a Democratic state senator, says he will run for the seat even if the 79-year-old Scott does not retire.

In the flood of tributes following Jimmy Carter's passing, one major aspect of his legacy was largely overlooked: his unwavering commitment to rural ...

Carter believed in government as a tool to promote the common good − not as the source of ultimate good, but as a reflection ...

The former assistant secretary of agriculture, who now lives in Roanoke, writes about his experiences with the late president ...

For a Nigerian approach, it's best to start the story of Jimmy Carter by telling the story of a tropical worm named ...

The U.S. flag code lays out parameters for lowering the U.S. flag to half-staff, including a 30-day period for current or former presidents to cover flags at federal government buildings and their ...

On Sunday, Dec. 29, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100. Born and raised in Georgia ... the president and the people.” — Democratic National Convention, 2004 “We ...

The second was lunch at the White House with Jimmy Carter. The meetup was arranged (at the request of the man running Carter’s primary campaign in New York) to let the president know the Post would ...

Flags are supposed to fly at half-staff through the end of January out of respect for former President Jimmy Carter ... since been raised in the days after Carter was buried Thursday in his hometown ...