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Jimmy Carter

California Governor Gavin Newsom

Energy & Environment

Gavin Newsom Does His Best Jimmy Carter Impression

California's governor is following Carter's disastrous energy policies at a time when the state's residents are suffering from already high prices.

Steven Greenhut | 10.28.2022 8:00 AM

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Inflation

What the 1970s Can Teach Us About Today's Inflationary Politics

Inflation is a problem for politicians. Unfortunately for them, it's not a problem they know how to solve.

Peter Suderman | 10.13.2022 6:00 AM

Pete Buttigieg giving Senate testimony

Department of Transportation

Pete Buttigieg Is Moving to Michigan. He Should Take the Transportation Department With Him.

It would signal that the transportation future involves decentralization and rapid change rather than Washington-style command-and-control.

Ira Stoll | 7.12.2022 3:20 PM

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Ukraine

Let Ukrainian Refugees In

And don't close the door behind them.

John Stossel | 3.30.2022 1:18 PM

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Neoliberalism

It's the End of the Neoliberal Era, and We Still Don't Know What Neoliberalism Is

Politics is filled with words that mean different things in different mouths, but "neoliberalism" is an especially tangled case.

Jesse Walker | 2.19.2022 6:00 AM

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Donald Trump

How Rob Long Went from Cheers to National Review to LSD

The long, strange, and unfinished trip of a sitcom-writing legend who turned right after the Cold War, co-founded a podcast empire, turned on to psychedelics, and got turned off to politics.

Nick Gillespie | 2.12.2020 2:55 PM

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Military

'Selective' Service Refuseniks Are Still Punished, Just Not Prosecuted

USA Today investigation finds that over 1 million men have faced the consequences of not applying to Jimmy Carter's sham draft.

Matt Welch | 4.3.2019 11:33 AM

Crime

Reconstructing American Politics

Trump, Failed Political Regimes, and the Illiberal Politics of the Future

Keith E. Whittington |The Volokh Conspiracy | 3.2.2019 2:55 PM

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Reasontv

Don't Fear Independents Like Howard Schultz! Politics Should Be More Like a Starbucks Menu

There are more forms of hepatitis than there are major parties in America.

Nick Gillespie and Mark McDaniel | 2.7.2019 2:56 PM

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Reasontv

When Democrats Loved Deregulation

Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, and 1970s Jerry Brown understood that government regulations hurt the little guy while enriching big-business incumbents.

Matt Welch and Alexis Garcia | 12.12.2018 11:00 AM

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History

Leo Ribuffo, RIP

The man who coined the phrase "Brown Scare"

Jesse Walker | 12.8.2018 8:35 AM

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Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter: Jesus Would Approve of Gay Marriage, and So Do I

The former president has "no problem" with gay weddings, though he adds that churches shouldn't be forced to perform them.

Joe Setyon | 7.9.2018 11:45 AM

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Jimmy Carter

What Jimmy Carter and Jerry Brown Can Teach Us About Deregulation

As we prepare for a new "era of limits," Democrats may need to reclaim their party's forgotten history of rolling back government.

Matt Welch | 2.9.2018 7:05 AM

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Music

Songs of the Presidents

A playlist for Presidents' Day

Jesse Walker | 2.20.2017 9:40 AM

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Department of Education

The Ever-Shifting Politics of the Department of Education

Supported by Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott, opposed by Shirley Chisholm and Jerry Brown—the department has a long history of scrambling political alliances.

Jesse Walker | 2.10.2017 12:35 PM

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Why Do We Have a Department of Education? Jimmy Carter's Debt to a Teachers Union.

Public education existed well before 1980, but an unpopular President Carter wanted the nation's largest union on his side before an election.

Anthony Fisher | 2.7.2017 1:15 PM

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Reasontv

Super Delegates…to the Rescue (of Hillary Clinton)!

With great power comes great...electability (tough luck, Bernie Sanders).

Austin Bragg | 3.15.2016 8:47 AM

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Politics

Democrats on Immigration Since 1980: From Apathy to Anger to Amnesty (of Sorts)

Like border walls for Republicans, pathway-to-citizenship for Democrats is a recent emphasis

Matt Welch | 8.27.2015 12:33 PM

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Politics

Suspicious Minds

The '70s saw a strange interplay of skepticism and nostalgia.

Jesse Walker | 11.27.2014 3:00 PM

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Politics

Anthony Fisher Talks Jimmy Carter's Obama-Bashing and More on "The Independents"

Anthony Fisher | 10.11.2014 5:30 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Red Meat Wednesday, With Anthony Fisher, TV's Andy Levy, Chris Moody, Jason Mattera, an ex-Secret Service Dude, and a New Enemy of Freedom!

Matt Welch | 10.8.2014 8:41 PM

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Politics

Carter Criticizes Obama's Slow ISIS Response

Zenon Evans | 10.8.2014 11:40 AM

Politics

Friday Funnies: Seems Like Old Times

Chip Bok | 9.5.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Suspicious Minds in the 1970s

Rick Perlstein's new book shows the strange '70s interplay of skepticism and nostalgia.

Jesse Walker | 8.24.2014 10:00 AM

Politics

Carter vs. Reagan on Spending, Take 2 featuring Ramesh Ponnuru

Nick Gillespie | 4.24.2014 2:45 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Prohibition-Hating Democrat Beto O'Rourke, Russia Conspiracy Theories, Dumb Laws, Jimmy Carter's Surveillance Naivete, Tax Breaks for Diverse TV Writing Rooms (Like Ours!), and Sexy Aftershow!

Matt Welch | 3.24.2014 8:01 PM

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Politics

Jimmy Carter Reveals Secret NSA Plan to Keep Post Offices Relevant

Scott Shackford | 3.24.2014 11:28 AM

Politics

Jimmy Carter: Election Overseen By International Community the Solution to Syria Crisis

Doesn't think upcoming peace conference will succeed

Reason Staff | 12.23.2013 1:30 PM

Politics

Jimmy Carter Criticizes Obamacare Site Launch

That's gotta sting

Reason Staff | 11.1.2013 6:00 PM

Politics

Jimmy Carter Planning To Visit North Korea

To negotiate release of American citizen

Reason Staff | 7.29.2013 9:40 AM

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Politics

Former President Carter Throws Support Snowden's Way

Scott Shackford | 7.18.2013 6:41 PM

Politics

Former President Jimmy Carter Supports Edward Snowden

"America does not have a functioning democracy at this point in time."

Reason Staff | 7.18.2013 4:00 PM

Policy

Former President Carter Defends Zimmerman Jury

Says prosecutions set standard high

Reason Staff | 7.17.2013 8:20 AM

Policy

Jimmy Carter Comes Out Against Marijuana Legalization

Mike Riggs | 5.17.2013 12:46 PM

Politics

Former Democratic Presidents Praise George W. Bush's Work in Africa

All living former presidents are attending the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum.

Reason Staff | 4.25.2013 12:52 PM

Politics

Former President Carter to Observe Nepal's Election

Exact date yet to be announced

Reason Staff | 4.1.2013 9:16 AM

Politics

The State of Our Union Strong, Most Presidents Agree

"Strong", "sound" and "confident" mainstays of presidential vocabulary

Ed Krayewski | 2.11.2013 12:13 PM

War on Drugs

Jimmy Carter Endorses Marijuana Legalization

Nice, but a few decades late

Reason Staff | 12.12.2012 6:52 PM

Politics

Carter: Prospect of Israel-Palestine Peace "Vanishing"

Condemned Israel's West Bank settlement construction

Reason Staff | 10.22.2012 1:48 PM

Politics

Forty Years Ago At the Democratic Convention: Democrats, War and Intervention

Democrats have been more rhetorically anti-war than actually so

Ed Krayewski | 9.6.2012 6:04 PM

Politics

Jimmy Carter Blasts Obama Foreign Policy Without Mentioning President By Name Once

Ed Krayewski | 6.25.2012 3:09 PM

Politics

The Eternal State of the Union

Why does every SOTU sound eerily familiar? Because presidents have been saying the same things for a half-century.

Matt Welch | 1.24.2012 5:45 PM

Politics

Gene Shalit, Soupy Sales, and History's Greatest Monster

Jesse Walker | 3.4.2011 8:13 PM

Politics

Has Anybody Seen Jimmy Carter Lately?

At this point, would America settle for a new 1980s?

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.4.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

On the Passing of a Liberal Deregulator

Matt Welch | 1.3.2011 10:35 AM

Politics

Get Carter

Matt Welch | 9.22.2010 12:36 PM

Politics

Which First-Time SOTUer Said it?

Matt Welch | 1.27.2010 3:49 PM

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