UNCOVERED: 20 - The Untold Story

The long battle to establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Millions across federal, state, and local governments, institutions, and industries now recognise the national holiday

The Independent UK · Jan 15, 2025

It’s MAGA’s problem now

Living with the consequences imposed by a woefully uninformed electorate

Salon · Jan 14, 2025

Mafia Don? Trump and other presidents who flirted with the mob

A new book looks into the complicated relationship between the mob and the White House from Roosevelt to Biden

The Guardian - US · Jan 13, 2025

How will 2025 turn out? The life of Jimmy Carter offers an unexpected clue

Dismissed as a loser at the time, the former US president left behind an enduring legacy – with lessons for today, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK · Jan 3, 2025

Ex-CIA director Leon Panetta ‘hopeful’ that Trump will be more Reagan than ‘America First’ on national security

Vastly experienced former defense secretary who allowed women into combat is braced for backlash but feels ‘deep, deep down in my guts’ that norms will hold

The Guardian - US · Jan 3, 2025

Carter knew the calm before the storm

Carter was the calm in the storm: blunt, stubborn, smart and a victim of his own hubris

Salon · Jan 2, 2025

Righting a wrong, name by name − the Irei monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned by the US government during World War II

June Aochi Berk, now 92 years old, remembers the trepidation and fear she felt 80 years ago on Jan. 2, 1945. On that date, Berk and her family members were released by military order from the U.S. government detention facility in Rohwer, Arkansas, where they had been imprisoned for three…

The Conversation · Jan 2, 2025

Fox News pundit questions whether Jimmy Carter was actually ‘decent’ as he ‘essentially’ called Reagan ‘racist’

’I think we have to remember ... when everyone says he’s decent? Remember the campaign he ran against Reagan, essentially calling him a racist and a warmonger,’ Bill McGurn said on Fox News

The Independent UK · Dec 30, 2024

How Jimmy Carter lost his second term to Ronald Reagan

A year-long hostage crisis led to a presidency that would shape American politics for decades. But how much of what really happened is public?

The Independent UK · Dec 30, 2024

Jimmy Carter: president, pastor and prophet

An unpopular president, then a respected philanthropist and peacemaker, Jimmy Carter will be remembered as a pious man whose actions were always rooted in his religious faith.

The Conversation · Dec 30, 2024