John Dickerson
Reporter. Podcasts: Gabfest/Whistlestop/Navel Gazing. Contributor, The Atlantic. Author, The Hardest Job In the World: The American Presidency
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- A president who airbrushes slavery from national memory while normalizing racial dehumanization in his social media feed is not a steward in America’s 250th year but a reenactor. Among the many reasons we study history. Our essay from March: substack.com/@johnfdicker...
- The robots are doing great. substack.com/@johnfdicker...
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- "A president who tries to change the rules once will do it again. The more his first attempt is downgraded, has its edges smoothed, turned into a matter of differing opinion rather than a unique effort to break the American system, the easier it is for that same person to break the laws again."
- Trump is already laying groundwork to contest the next election he loses. January 6th wasn't the end—it was the rehearsal. johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/pre-planni...
- Trump is already laying groundwork to contest the next election he loses. January 6th wasn't the end—it was the rehearsal. johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/pre-planni...
- An update to last night's experiment. substack.com/@johnfdicker...
- Reposted by John DickersonThis super series w @jamellebouie.net, @jdickerson.bsky.social, JSchuessler, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, @pastpunditry.bsky.social & @marthasjones.bsky.social is part of a project @ the JCB supported by Emerson Collective and in partnership w @theatlantic.com -- v v grateful! 2026, here we come.
- True story! The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hosting a (nearly) year long series of events about History & Journalism -- there's never been a better year to think about this. Beginning w 4 online events in February, interviews with 3 amazing journalists, and then a panel with 3 amazing historians.
- Remembering what the argument used to be about guns and tyrany: substack.com/@johnfdicker...
- The killing of a U.S. citizen did not induce circumspection, as training and obligation to the rule of law require. It became a starter pistol for lying. open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...
- It was possible to know that the DHS secretary was comfortable with provable lies for some time now. substack.com/@johnfdicker...
- Officials had every reason to tell the truth. johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/officials-...
- In light of the administration taking down displays about slavery at the President’s House at Independence Hall, our essay from last March. substack.com/@johnfdicker...
- The Op-Ed Arrest: johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/the-op-ed-...
- A lie that can be seen from space: johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/a-lie-that...
- Reagan had a sign on his desk. Donald Trump has another one. johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/no-nobel-n...
- Reckless Disregard. johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/reckless-d...
- "I don't care." johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/i-dont-car...
- Stress is the algorithm. johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/stress-is-...
- “Those are pretexts…”
- Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
- On this January 6, 2026, a look back at our essay on the eve of the pardons of those who attacked the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. substack.com/profile/5411...
- In the Act of Normalization: johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/in-the-act...
- Right now, the administration is simultaneously claiming this is a law-enforcement arrest (minimal scope) and announcing we’ll “run the country” (open-ended commitment). No one with political skin in the game (cliche!) is required to explain that contradiction. open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...
- Where is John Dickerson going after CBS? open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...
- U.S. Action in Venezuela: The authorization question in three points. johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/us-action-...
- Much of the problems with the Social Security Administration reported in this deeply reported piece www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... were the kinds of things being warned about here months ago: www.instagram.com/reel/DHpKt8x...
- Maybe a little too much timenon my hands: substack.com/@johnfdicker...
- At some point in the last 20 years of recording the Gabfest, we decided to end the year addressing conundrums. This year we were joined at our live show by @colbertlateshow.bsky.social and many things happened after that. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/2...
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- Our goodbye from CBS News:
- “We all know what this desire to execute looks like in our own lives. The president is the jumpy man who presses the elevator button a second time, then a third time—with his umbrella. It feels good. It looks like action. But the elevator does not move faster.” substack.com/@johnfdicker...
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- The country mourned a beloved filmmaker. Trump’s first instinct was to desecrate. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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- Trump’s Affordability Weave. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
- Insisting the president did not say something almost ensures that eventually he'll boast about having said the very thing: johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/a-return-t...
- What did the president call those countries again? johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/a-return-t...
- Claim: Representations made about things happening in real-time...are worth covering for their own sake but also because they provide a test of the basic business of public service: assessing information, making decisions and presenting them accurately to the public. substack.com/@johnfdicker...
- What does "total exoneration" look like in the manual: substack.com/@johnfdicker...
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- Exonerated or not? johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/a-real-tim...
- A real time measure of reliability: An experimentation in thinking about things: open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...
- President Trump won by telling voters to feel rather than remember. "Affordability is a hoax" requires the opposite. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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- So why wouldn’t the president have wanted a second strike that was well within the law? substack.com/profile/5411...
- So why wouldn’t the president have wanted a second strike that was well within the law? substack.com/profile/5411...
- Presidential Surrender. johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/presidenti...
