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Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024

US
Jimmy Carter, longest-lived US president, dies aged 100

Former president faced series of economic and foreign policy crises, including Iran hostage affair and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Renaissance man
Jimmy Carter, peacemaker guided by moral vision but laid low by politics

Jimmy Carter on Israel
Carter’s book on Israeli ‘apartheid’ was called antisemitic – but was it prescient?

Prophet of the post-presidency
How Jimmy Carter changed the world

Headlines

South Korea
South Korea orders emergency safety inspection of airline operations after Jeju Air crash

Authorities announce probe as shocked citizens began a second day of official mourning

Climate crisis
World endures 'decade of deadly heat' as 2024 caps hottest years on record

France
Dominique Pelicot will not appeal against conviction for drugging and raping wife

Smoking
Single cigarette takes 20 minutes off life expectancy, study finds

Colorado
Reporter allegedly attacked by man saying ‘This is Trump’s America now’

In focus

Farming
Bleak outlook for US farmers – and Trump tariffs could make it worse

Bumper grain crop set to weigh heavily as farmers count costs of seed, fertilizer – and effects of possible trade war

South Korea
Text messages, a mayday and then tragedy: the day flight 7C2216 was lost

Syria
Control, censorship and ‘penalties’: inside the Assad regime’s propaganda arm

Spotlight

The overwhelm
How I beat overwhelm: I quit using makeup – and faced the world as I really am

The average woman in the UK will spend 474 days applying makeup. Without it, I have more time for a life well spent

2024: what happened next?
Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles and Rebeca Andrade summed up the incredible spirit of the Olympics. Now, it’s been tainted

My feelgood movie
‘Endlessly rewatchable’: why Diggstown AKA Midnight Sting is my feelgood movie

Is it true that …
Is it true that … shampoo is a scam, because hair washes itself?

Basketball

LeBron at 40: the NBA’s brightest star stares down the dying of the light

Claire de Lune in Los Angeles

Museums
Pharaohs, masks and bronze age boats: six standout new museums around the world in 2025

Opinion

Jimmy Carter’s life after the presidency set a bar that few others have followed

Jan-Werner Müller

Is it true that up to half of people have no inner monologue? I investigated

Arwa Mahdawi

Sports

NFL review

The Aaron Rodgers Experience hits a new low – and the Jets must move on

Melissa Jacobs

Week 17 roundup
Daniels-to-Ertz dart lifts Commanders into rare playoff berth

Culture

Culture
A laugh a day to keep the winter blues away: the 31-day comedy diet for January

Film
1970 review – puppet Soviets plot alongside real-life footage of landmark Polish protest

In case you missed it

Politics
Republican congressman says party should drop ‘food fight’ over leadership

Mike Lawler says Mike Johnson should remain speaker as cracks appear between Trump’s team and far right

Feminism
Welcome to the femosphere, the latest dark, toxic corner of the internet… for women

‘We need dramatic social and technological changes’
Is societal collapse inevitable?

UK
From climate denial to gothic movies to ‘treat culture’ … what to expect in 2025

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