David Corn Biography

David Corn is a veteran Washington journalist and well-known political commentator. He is the Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine and an analyst for MSNBC and NBC News. He won the 2012 George Polk Award for breaking the 47 percent video story that influenced the Obama-Romney presidential contest. For 20 years, he was the Washington editor of The Nation magazine.

Recently, he co-wrote, with Michael Isikoff, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War. He also is the author of The New York Times bestseller The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception, where he explores issues that have arisen during President Bush’s term, such as tax cuts, homeland security, and the misconceptions surrounding the war in Iraq.

Corn writes on a host of subjects, including politics, the White House, Congress, and national security. He has broken stories on Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, John McCain, Sarah Palin, George H.W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Enron, the Central Intelligence Agency and its leak case, corruption in Iraq, the National Rifle Association, the Pentagon, and assorted Washington players and institutions.

Corn has long been a commentator on television and radio, having appeared on shows such as The O’Reilly Factor, Crossfire, Washington Week in Review, Hardball, and C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. He is a regular panelist on the weekly television show Eye on Washington. He is also a regular on NPR’s “The Diane Rehm Show” and “To the Point,” and has contributed commentary to scores of call-in radio programs.

David Corn has spoken, lectured, or debated at many colleges and universities, including Harvard, Cornell, Notre Dame, Yale, Amherst, the University of Southern California, American University, the University of Vermont, and Arkansas State University. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University.

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