John Dickerson

John Dickerson is co-anchor of "CBS Evening News" and anchor of "CBS Evening News Plus." He is also a Contributing Writer to The Atlantic and is co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest.

  • 04/22/2023: Long Tail Interviews on Prime Time

    We cover the latest on Prime Time every day, but we also conduct a number of interviews that last beyond the move to fish wrap(*). Here are some interviews from the first four days of this week:
    1. Why the fighting in Sudan matters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ffhTXOsAQ
    2. Evan Gershkovich’s friend explains his condition in a Russian jail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0XMyEKtHIU
    3. What it was like to be part of the longest running show on Broadway, The Phantom of the Opera. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NbhvpR7_1o
    4. A Dominion lawyer explains why they settled their suit with Fox. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIsOCwjWchc
    5. What is at issue with Clarence Thomas’ financial disclosure history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czPr1EeeNeA
    6. Why new mNRA technology might be a big new development in fighting cancer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyvEJT0dTSE
    7. A new study shows that black patients have better outcomes when they see black doctors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFYqi1X6C1Q
    8. What the Fox settlement means for election law and the future influence of misinformation in coming elections. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0AfsULjnUA
    9. What went right and wrong with the SpaceX launch. https://youtu.be/fhgbqEEhT50
    10. New Species found in that giant patch of garbage in the ocean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBdEDZ6lfiI
    11. How to understand the challenge in front of Kevin McCarthy with the debt ceiling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbKMpgpucMM
    Here’s how you can find the show: Either click here or use this URL: https://johndickerson.com/blog/how-to-watch-john-dickerson-on-prime-time/
    * Today’s news, tomorro’w fish wrap.

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  • 04/14/2023: Summer's End

    It’s hot today for the first time of the season, which makes it feel like the start of summer. Time to start stacking the sandbags against the end of summer blues. The sun is going down. This song came on shuffle. It’s from John Prine’s Tree of Forgiveness. Yesterday was the five-year anniversary of the […]

  • 04/10/2023: New Feature: CBS political archive tastes

  • 04/08/2023: Chat GPT and checking yourself

    When your words don’t land as you intend it can be because a) you were unclear b) the people listening misunderstood your point or c) some members of the audience are willfully misunderstanding what you say. I was recently asked about the Tennessee lawmakers kicked out of the body. So I asked Chat GPT to […]

  • 04/02/2023: CBS This Morning on Trump Indictment

  • 04/01/2023: What's in the Indictment? A debate with Chat GPT

    Here is an argument about the recent indictment of former President Trump: Former President Donald Trump has been indicted. The people who know what is in the indictment aren’t talking. The people who are talking don’t know what’s in the indictment. None of them do. It’s sealed. Nevertheless, a lot of time will be spent […]

  • 04/01/2023: Chat GPT is terrible at poltiics

    Question: The Manhattan district attorney has issued an indictment of Donald Trump but the facts are not known and will not be known for several days, how should that encourage or discourage a person from forming opinions about the indictment itself? As an AI language model, I cannot provide personal opinions, but I can offer […]

  • 03/28/2023: See the gift, ease the burden.

    Everyone has at least one gift and one burden. It is hard to find the gift in some people. See the gift, ease the burden.

  • 03/26/2023: Old note found: moving up the time of grace

    Dr. Nadia Chaudhri died on October 5, 2021. She narrated her death from cancer on her Twitter feed. Every time I read her writing I thought about the grace on display. The lessons she was able to give us. I just found a note I wrote to myself after reading one of her entries: “move […]

  • 03/25/2023: A satisfying GPT exchange

    A lot of the coverage of change GPT has been about the learning and development of artificial intelligence. What I wonder is how we, as humans, are going to slowly learn and acculturate to the kinds of exchanges with ChatGPT and its cousins. What I’m thinking about is the psychological closeness that will accrue in […]

  • 03/25/2023: In the days of easy poison

    When people dropped dead for any variety of reasons, it was much easier to poison your enemies,and have your murder written off as just another one of those episodes where a person was dropping dead because people dropped dead all the time. This seems to have been what happened. In the case of. William Longespee […]