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1 month ago | americanheritage.com | Edwin Grosvenor |Daniel Yergin |Kai Bird |Jonathan Alter

Editor's Note: Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of S&P Global, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, described by Business Week as hailed as “the best history of oil ever written.” More recently, he published The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations. The presidency of Jimmy Carter was both shaped and bracketed by energy. Even before he took office, Carter made clear that he intended “energy” to be a linchpin of his administration.

Jan 9, 2025 | ourcommunitynow.com | Kai Bird

Share Carter summoned Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat to Camp David to make peace, not apartheid, in the Middle East. But the Israeli president broke his promise to freeze settlements. Last summer, ex-president Jimmy Carter was having a gentle, halting conversation with one of his great-grandchildren. Approaching his hundredth birthday, he’d been in home hospice care for nearly 15 months. He remarked that he’d had a pretty wonderful life.

Jan 9, 2025 | thenation.com | Kai Bird

World / Carter summoned Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat to Camp David to make peace, not apartheid, in the Middle East. But the Israeli president broke his promise to freeze settlements. Ad Policy Last summer, ex-president Jimmy Carter was having a gentle, halting conversation with one of his great-grandchildren. Approaching his hundredth birthday, he’d been in home hospice care for nearly 15 months. He remarked that he’d had a pretty wonderful life.

Dec 29, 2024 | motherjones.com | Kai Bird

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The angry Alaskans gathered in Fairbanks to burn the president’s effigy. It was early December 1978 and President Jimmy Carter was that unpopular in Alaska.

May 28, 2024 | nytimes.com | Kai Bird

Sitting still for hours on end in a chilly, drab courtroom, unable to speak his mind, forced to listen to people say objectionable things about him, Donald Trump at a defense table in Manhattan's Criminal Court may seem as far from his usual domain - the cheering crowds and the trappings of wealth - as could be imagined. But it was in another courthouse just down the street that Mr. Trump's wily mentor, Roy Cohn, pulled off one of his greatest legal feats.