Jimmy Carter: America is more racist now than when I was president

Jimmy Carter left office more than 30 years ago, but the former president thinks many of the problems facing the United States then are as prevalent as ever. In a wide-ranging interview with The Atlantic, the man from Plains, Georgia, says he is "prouder today" of being a Southerner following South Carolina's removal of the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds in Columbus. Still, he says he worries that "obvious, extreme racism" is even more of a problem now in the United States than it ...