While Democrats who don’t have fond memories of the Reagan administration would quarrel with the right’s nostalgia over his presidency, current Republican candidates revere it, and nearly all have tried to attach themselves to his persona and memory.
Ahead of a news conference for Jimmy Carter to publicly discuss his recent cancer diagnosis for the first time, his family has gathered and a single chair is placed behind a cloth-covered table, presumably for the former president to give his remarks.
You don’t have to be a doctor to know it’s an uphill battle for President Carter, who began radiation treatment following his news conference. The drug, and a similar treatment called Opdivo from Bristol-Myers Squibb, are part of a promising class of drugs that...