The anchor of “The Daily Report with John Dickerson” stops by to discuss the speculation around President Biden’s candidacy and reports that his team is seek...
The anchor of “The Daily Report with John Dickerson” stops by to discuss the speculation around President Biden’s candidacy and reports that his team is seek...
“On Many Sides” Donald Trump faced a test of racial healing eight months into his presidency in Charlottesville, Virginia. Like Charleston, the city was wrestling with its long histories of enslaved labor and racist policies.…
As we dive headlong into the 2024 presidential election season, the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press & Politics returns with journalist John Dickerson givi...
CBS News Prime Time anchor John Dickerson, who has covered eight presidential candidates in his career as a political journalist, gave the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics at Harvard Kennedy School on February 5, 2024. The…
Below you’ll find a series of Tweets about the presidency and how it links with portions of my book, The Hardest Job in the World. With a primary underway, it would make sense to think about the job these candidates are asking to be hired…
I talked with author Chris Miller for Slate Gabfest Reads about his new book, Chip War: The Fight for The World’s Most Critical Technology. We discussed how semiconductor chips became so important, why everyone is so dependent on Taiwan…
I talked to Timothy Frye, the Marshall D. Shulman professor of post-Soviet foreign policy at Columbia University, for “CBS News Prime Time” about how Russia’s war in Ukraine has changed global energy, the economy and politics.
For Presidents Day, I wrote about research into “intellectual brilliance,” a marker of great leaders, and shared some wisdom on the subject from the political scientist Gautam Mukunda, author of “Picking Presidents.”
On February 21, 1972, one handshake changed the US-China relationship. I wrote a short essay for CBS News “Prime Time” on how President Nixon’s risky trip created a new phrase in the political lexicon.
I started by asking Chat GPT if it could explain the opening paragraph of Washington’s Farewell address. It did a particularly good job. Then I gradually changed the text to make it more complicated and absurd. It kept pace even when…
I had a brief conversation with Opeai Playground about the presidency. Some good answers: Q: What are the successful attributes for a president? A: Successful attributes for a president include strong leadership, good communication skills,…
David Crosby died at age 81. All the Bob Dylan pages I follow are offering these two quotes. DAVID CROSBY: “I got Bob really high. There was an altercation between Bob & the Princeton people, who insisted that he wear a robe. I had to…
Since people often ask, here are the writing tools I carry in my bag: Field Notes notebooks. Uniball vision Elite pens. Blackwing pencils. Staples Tru Red Legal Pads. (Firm back, 3 punch holes. Staples makes these nearly impossible to find…
1/8/23: Speaker McCarthy said House Republicans “learned how to govern” in the 15 rounds of voting. What did they learn? That in a debate over important matters the minority must be listened to and their ideas accommodated in order to get…
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Last week I talked to Bob Woodward for “Sunday Morning” about conversations he had with President Trump during key points of his time in office. Woodward recorded Trump’s views of threats from Kim Jong Un, the COVID pandemic, and the…
We posted an extended version of my interview on American partisanship with Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan. Grinspan told me, “My response to everything as a historian is, ‘There’s a long story there,'” and this version captures a bit…
I interviewed Ada Calhoun on her work writing a new book that’s part memoir and part biography”: “Also A Poet: Frank O’Hara, My father, and Me.” Calhoun wanted to write a biography of the poet Frank O’Hara after she found tapes of…
A new CBS News show has launched on its streaming platform. I am its anchor, and I am extremely excited about it. Please check it out. It airs at 7 PM ET and 7 PM PT. You can find it on the CBS News app on all your devices and your…
Football might be the current American pastime, but for half a century Americans turned out in droves to watch head-to-head smashups between pairs of largely empty trains. One of the directors of train-crash theatre, a man from Iowa named…
UPDATE: After the 6/23/22 hearings, more context: Why do the January 6th hearings about the attempted overthrow of the election matter? Because, as this essay argues, it’s about holding the line. Because, as this essay argues, the hearings…
I’ve been keeping a running Twitter thread related to The Hardest Job in the World. For the last year or so, when I came across an item in the news that touched on the book I linked the item to a passage. Sometimes I suggested an entire…
In The Trials of Harry S. Truman (which I reviewed here) Jeffery Frank writes about Truman’s effort to race to get up to speed after becoming president: “Truman felt the strain of having to catch up: “Have been going through some very…