John Dickerson is Slate magazine’s Chief Political Correspondent.

Prior to joining Slate, Dickerson covered politics for 12 years for Time magazine. His last four years he was the magazine’s White House correspondent.

He has written extensively on President Bush’s efforts to curb terrorism, his domestic policies and his political strategy. Dickerson has interviewed George Bush five times since his election in 2000. In 2004 he co-wrote the Time cover story naming George Bush Time's Person of the Year. In 2004, the Washington Post wrote about his talent for asking questions: "The master of the game is John Dickerson of Time magazine, who has knocked Bush off script so many times that his colleagues have coined a term for cleverly worded, seemingly harmless, but incisive questions: "Dickersonian." The cover story he co-wrote on Karl Rove was included in The Best Political Stories of 2003.

During the 2000 presidential election, Dickerson covered John McCain, co-writing several cover stories on the Arizona Senator, and wrote at length on Republican candidate George W. Bush throughout the general campaign season. At the end of the contentious Florida election recount, he reported and wrote the cover story naming George W. Bush TIME’s “Person of the Year” after spending an afternoon with the future president at his Texas ranch.

Previously, Dickerson covered Capitol Hill, reporting on the Gingrich Congress, the House impeachment proceedings and Senate trial of President Clinton. Before covering Congress, Dickerson wrote about economics, providing analysis on entitlements, the budget process and taxes. During the 1996 national election he covered the campaigns of Bob Dole, Lamar Alexander and Steve Forbes.

A native Washingtonian, Dickerson graduated with distinction from the University of Virginia with a degree in English. Before starting for Slate in September 2005, Dickerson is working on a book for Simon and Schuster about his relationship with his late mother, Nancy Dickerson, a pioneering television newswoman.