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John Frederick Dickerson (born 1968) is an American journalist. He is chief political correspondent for Slate magazine. Before joining Slate, he covered politics for 12 years for Time. His last four years was as the magazine’s White House correspondent.

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The Republicans' mistreatment of Sen. Robert Byrd in their fight against health care reform.

In the film Annie Hall, Woody Allen finds himself stuck in line next to a man pontificating about the scholar Marshall McLuhan. Unable to stand it, Allen interrupts and tells the man he's wrong. The pedant replies that he's a professor who teaches on ...

From JOHN DICKERSON, Slate,  12 Mar 2010

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  Marshall McLuhan,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Woody Allen

The Political Gabfest for March 12, 2010.

Become a fan of the . We post to the Facebook page throughout the week, so keep the conversation going by joining us there. Listen to the Gabfest for March 12 by clicking the arrow on the audio player below: The e-mail address for the Political ...

From EMILY BAZELON, JOHN DICKERSON, AND DAVID PLOTZ, Slate,  12 Mar 2010

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How House Democrats can pass health care reform without voting for the health care bill.

President Obama has repeatedly called for an up-or-down vote on health care reform. But the only way House Democrats may be able to pass health care reform is by not holding an up-or-down vote. Follow me, Alice, and I'll try to explain. There are ...

From JOHN DICKERSON, Slate,  10 Mar 2010

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  White House,  David Plouffe

Rahm Emanuel can thank the president for the attention he's getting.

The blizzard of '10 in Washington might refer to February's record snowfall—or it might be a reference to the number of stories about White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. They've been everywhere you look lately. This Sunday, he'll be on the cover ...

From JOHN DICKERSON, Slate,  9 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Rahm Emanuel,  Barack Obama,  White House,  Karl Rove,  New York Times Company

Obama held only one health care event in his first four months in office?

But for a president obsessed with health care, Obama didn't seem that obsessed at first. Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of Barack Obama's first public event devoted to health care reform. It wasn't a memorable event. And it took him 43 days as ...

From JOHN DICKERSON, Slate,  4 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Barack Obama

Plaidoyer pour la prise de risque en politique

Ces deux manœuvres sont à la fois originales et par trop familières. Ce ne sont que les dernières tactiques en date dans une longue lutte partisane. Elles nous permettent également de mieux saisir le climat politique actuel; de réaliser qu'en cette ...

From JOHN DICKERSON, Slate,  4 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John McCain,  Sarah Palin,  Eric E. Schmidt

The Political Gabfest for Feb. 26, 2010.

Become a fan of the . We post to the Facebook page throughout the week, so keep the conversation going by joining us there. Listen to the Gabfest for Feb. 26 by clicking the arrow on the audio player below: On this week's Political Gabfest, Emily ...

From EMILY BAZELON, JOHN DICKERSON, AND DAVID PLOTZ, Slate,  3 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  George W. Bush,  Barack Obama

Obama's end game for passing health care reform.

On Wednesday, the president is scheduled to make an afternoon statement about how to move forward with health care, but today he made his intention clear in a letter to Congressional leaders. He's moving ahead. He's not starting over as Republicans ...

From JOHN DICKERSON, Slate,  2 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Mitch McConnell

Obama and Republicans seemed reasonable. That's bad news for Democrats.

If the White House health care summit was political theater, here's a 30-second review: President Obama won. So did congressional Republicans. Democrats in Congress need another act. This is not because Obama is such a better speaker and advocate for ...

From JOHN DICKERSON, Slate,  25 Feb 2010

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  White House,  Tom Coburn

Why the GOP's current brand of hypocrisy is worse than the Democrats'.

All politicians are hypocrites, right? On this, a divided nation can agree. In the current version of this dispute, Democrats say Republicans are hypocrites for opposing the use of reconciliation to avoid a Senate filibuster even though Republicans ...

From JOHN DICKERSON, Slate,  24 Feb 2010

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  White House,  Barack Obama,  Robert Gibbs

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