Every Attempt to Make War Easy That the president thought Iran would be easy should have been the biggest warning

Every Attempt to Make War Easy: substack.com/@johnfdicker...

Every Attempt to Make War Easy That the president thought Iran would be easy should have been the biggest warning

Every Attempt to Make War Easy: substack.com/@johnfdicker...

Stack the Week, and experiment in news: johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/stack-the-...

The president thanked Iran for opening a strait the US was still blocking, Gospel believers argued with the Gospels, a shoe company made $ by not selling shoes, and the man who didn’t believe he’d won a Picasso was the only person all week wrong to be suspicious. open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...

The president thanked Iran for opening a strait the US was still blocking, Gospel believers argued with the Gospels, a shoe company made $ by not selling shoes, and the man who didn’t believe he’d won a Picasso was the only person all week wrong to be suspicious. open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...

"Probably the most Holocaust jokes that I've heard in an Applebee's"

-- Antonia Hitchens with @jdickerson.bsky.social & @davidplotz.bsky.social @slate.com discussing her @newyorker.com article on the disturbing and growing "Groypers" movement among young Republicans

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The City of Charleston, SC using NOAA tide gauge data, reports about 13 inches of sea level rise over the past 100 years…The rise is accelerating—roughly half of that increase happened in just the last ~20 years

The Convicted. open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...

The Convicted. open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...

My guess— unless this is prideful or a sacrilege to say this— is that the Pope’s response to president Trump’s attentions, will be to pray more for him.

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This is text from a substack post: A war declared victorious that still might have required wiping out a civilization, a peace deal that meant something different to every party that claimed to have won it, nine policemen sentenced to death for injuries they swore the victims caused themselves, an erased contempt of Congress conviction, a suppressed study showing the Covid-19 vaccine worked — the moon turns out to be the only reliable record of what actually happened.

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Another experiment in arranging the news, this time a digest of the week. A lot like Face the Nation Diary for those who remember: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Reporter's Notebook: A 1954 plea and the fading power of public shame YouTube video by CBS Evening News

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Turns out the presidency is a high stakes job. substack.com/@johnfdicker...

Turns out the presidency is a high stakes job. substack.com/@johnfdicker...

Mad? Madman? Showman? open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...

Not the Strangest Thing. Putting a Waffle House visit in context. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Not the Strangest Thing. Putting a Waffle House visit in context. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Thank you It's Friday again.

Thank you. open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...

Then What? Fifty years of peace requires more details.

Then What? substack.com/home/post/p-...

Then What? Fifty years of peace requires more details.

Then What? substack.com/home/post/p-...

Story Stack 4/1/26 One after the other

A new phase but old questions about the Iran war. New questions about NATO. The Supreme Court is deciding who gets to be American. India is counting all of its people. Oracle stopped counting 30,000 of theirs. johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/story-stac...

Story Stack 4/1/26 One after the other

A new phase but old questions about the Iran war. New questions about NATO. The Supreme Court is deciding who gets to be American. India is counting all of its people. Oracle stopped counting 30,000 of theirs. johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/story-stac...

Stack 3/31/26 One story after another.

“B-52s are up in the air. So is NATO, the European economy, and the question of whether a government can hang one ethnicity, compile a list of Jews, and fire its own investigators. More solid: The First Amendment.” open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...

Stack 3/30/26 Stories of the day in order of importance.

Israeli missiles redirect mid-flight. So does Trump's Iran policy. One hit. The other is still in the air. The Fed's Powell is consulting the vibes and holding fire. TSA agents got a check. Congress isn't earning theirs. In 2 days, 4 humans leave Earth's magnetic field. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Stack Stories for March 30, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/johnfdic...

No Kings: Washington's life was the rebuttal. Trump's record is the charge. johnfdickerson.substack.com/p/no-kings

Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead Whitehead concludes his Harlem Trilogy (after Crook Manifesto) with a transcendent and wildly entertaining novel in which his re...

Colson Whitehead concludes his Harlem Trilogy with a transcendent and wildly entertaining novel in which his recurring characters grapple with the ways their lives are defined by crime and the city they call home. It’s the greatest New York novel in years. @doubledaybooks.bsky.social

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