David Corn is Mother Jones' Washington bureau chief. Until 2007, he was Washington editor of The Nation.
He has written for the Washington Post, New York
Times, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer,
Boston Globe, Newsday, Harper's, The New Republic, Mother
Jones, Washington Monthly, LA Weekly, the Village Voice,
Slate, Salon, TomPaine.com, Alternet, and many other publications.
He is the co-author (with Michael Isikoff) of Hubris: The Inside
Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War (Crown,
2006).
His book, The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of
Deception (Crown, 2003) was a New York Times bestseller. The
Los Angeles Times said, "David Corn's The Lies of George W.
Bush is as hard-hitting an attack as has been leveled against the
current president. The Washington Post called it "a fierce
polemic...a serious case....[that] ought to be in voters' minds when
they cast their ballots. A painstaking indictment."
His first novel, Deep Background, a political thriller, was
published by St. Martin's Press in 1999. The Washington Post
said it is "brimming with gusto....As clean and steely as an icy Pinot
Grigio....[An] exceptional thriller." The Los Angeles Times
called it "a slaughterhouse scorcher of a book you don't want to put
down" and named it one of the best novels of the year. The New York
Times said, "You can either read now or wait to see the
movie....Crowded with fictional twists and revelations." The Chicago
Tribune noted, "This dark, impressive political thriller...is a
top-notch piece of fiction, thoughtful and compelling." PBS anchor Jim
Lehrer observed that Deep Background is "a Washington novel with
everything. It's a page-turning thriller from first word to last...that
brings some of the worst parts of Washington vividly alive."
Corn was a contributor to Unusual Suspects, an anthology of
mystery and crime fiction (Vintage/Black Lizard, 1996). His short story
"My Murder" was nominated for a 1997 Edgar Allan Poe Award by the
Mystery Writers of America. The story was republished in The Year's 25
Finest Crime and Mystery Stories (Carroll & Graf, 1997).
He is the author of the biography Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and
the CIA's Crusades (Simon & Schuster, 1994). The Washington
Monthly called Blond Ghost "an amazing compendium of CIA
fact and lore." The Washington Post noted that this biography
"deserves a space on that small shelf of worthwhile books about the
agency." The New York Times termed it "a scorchingly critical
account of an enigmatic figure who for two decades ran some of the
agency's most important, and most controversial, covert operations."
Corn has long been a commentator on television and radio. He is a
regular panelist on the weekly television show, Eye On
Washington. He has appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity and
Colmes, On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, Crossfire, The Capital
Gang, Fox News Sunday, Washington Week in Review, The McLaughlin Group,
Hardball, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, and many other shows.
He is a regular on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show and To The
Point and has contributed commentary to NPR, BBC Radio, and CBC
Radio. He has been a guest on scores of call-in radio programs.
Corn is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University.
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