Jimmy Carter

Jonestown: The Avoidable Tragedy

Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Jonestown Massacre, in which nearly a thousand people died in the People's Temple compound in Guyana. Jonestown was a double tragedy. The first is the massacre. The second is that it...

Two Clintons In The Spotlight

If Hillary Clinton is named the next secretary of state, she and her husband could be positioned to lead a public-private partnership on the global stage unlike any before it, reports the Washington Post.

Obama urged to forgo Iran threats

The battle for president-elect Barack Obama's ear on the Iran nuclear issue has intensified, with a recent high-level report recommending rapprochement through careful diplomacy, while hawkish groups want to keep the attack...

The election, Democrats and the GOP

The deeper one digs into the returns from this last election, the more portentous the results seem. I know the dangers of deciding too soon that any one election is a turning point. I recall vividly how devastated Republicans...

Safire: Hot Washington best seller: 'The Plum Book'

LANGUAGE After a presidential election that deserves the word it was given in headlines - historic - welcome to the newly irenic but still newsworthy period in American politics that goes by the ancient Latin name of...

Record Numbers Seeking Bush Pardons

As Bush Presidency Draws to a Close, Who Will Get a Pardon and Who Won't? A record number of felons are seeking presidential pardons or commutations as President George W. Bush enters the final months of his term, creating one...

New Yorker: Bush's 'midnight' regulation period

22 hrs ago

Administration now trying to craft new rules that are difficult to reverse When President Jimmy Carter lost his bid for reelection, in November, 1980, he had lots of unfinished business that he did not intend to leave that way....

Slouching Toward Washington: The lurid foolishness of the Transition.

n fact, the origins of heroic Transition are earlier still. Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency was so catastrophic that, in retrospect, we tend to forget the circumstances under which he took office in 1976-77.

Question Time: Ron Ben-Yishai

Work: Ron Ben-Yishai, 65, is an Israeli war reporter and one of the subjects of the animation documentary ‘Waltz with Bashir’, in cinemas from Friday Life: divorced with three children, Ben-Yishai lives in Tel Aviv Balance:...

Good intentions took us on the road to hell

As a print journalist, I find the electronic response from readers of Times Online gives me rapid correction of mistaken arguments. When I get something wrong, I now know it within a few hours, often from professional analysts,...

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