Stories by David Corn
David Corn is the Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones and the co-author of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War and is the author of The Lies of George W. Bush. He writes a blog at davidcorn.com.
Number of sentences in John McCain's RNC speech about being a POW in Vietnam: 43. Number about his 25 years in the House and Senate: 8.
Posted on Sep 5, 2008
Can an acceptance speech make a difference in an election? This was one with the potential to do so.
Posted on Aug 29, 2008
Clinton may be bolstering her position for a possible run in 2012.
Posted on May 14, 2008
The Clinton campaign has signaled it will fight on. But her only real option is going nuclear.
Posted on May 7, 2008
Hillary's assertion that she had played an "instrumental" part of the peace process in Ireland doesn't have basis in the facts.
Posted on Apr 15, 2008
Petraeus' testimony was predictable: Progress is real, we must stay the course. But Democrats missed an opportunity to undercut the White House story.
Posted on Apr 9, 2008
Obama tries to show the nation a pathway to a society free of racial gridlock and denial. (Full speech follows)
Posted on Mar 19, 2008
Denying reality is now the central tenet of what passes for modern "conservatism."
Posted on Oct 5, 2007
A Baghdad embassy study says Prime Minister Maliki is blocking corruption probes, his government is partly controlled by criminal gangs, and the U.S. is doing little to clean up the mess.
Posted on Sep 3, 2007
Don Cheadle's new film, Talk to Me, about Petey Greene forgets Greene's most important accomplishment: He was a community activist who railed against poverty and racism.
Posted on Jul 17, 2007
Libby had become a symbol of the Bush White House's problem with the truth. And now the final act in the long-running CIA leak scandal -- Bush's commutation -- stands as another symbol of this grand theme: Lying doesn't really bother this crowd.
Posted on Jul 3, 2007
A Mighty Heart, the real life story of Danny Pearl, a journalist killed by al Qaeda jihadists, unfortunately was not designed to tell this important story. Rather, it was custom-built to showcase Angelina Jolie's talent.
Posted on Jun 27, 2007
Michael Moore's new movie is a dead-on dissection of America's sick healthcare system. Funny, sad and moving, it's the best of his films.
Posted on Jun 23, 2007
Edwards slams Clinton and Obama on the war. But Hillary holds her own, while Obama coasts.
Posted on Jun 4, 2007
The president acknowledged that Iraq isn't the model of democracy and progress he's spent the past few years claiming it was, but his arrogance is leading his decision to escalate the occupation.
Posted on Jan 11, 2007
As Congress debates torture and detention for suspected terrorists, you can see what waterboarding is all about.
Posted on Sep 29, 2006
Plame was no analyst or paper-pusher. She was an operations officer working on a top CIA priority -- searching for proof of Bush's case for invading Iraq.
Posted on Sep 12, 2006
It is getting harder for conservatives to ignore the president's intellectual shallowness.
Posted on Aug 31, 2006
Conservative columnist Bob Novak's first source on the identity of Valerie Plame in 2003 was former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.
Posted on Aug 28, 2006
Critical of President Bush's reasoning for sending our nation to war? According to his new rhetoric, you're imperiling American soldiers.
Posted on Jan 20, 2006
Bush's ill-advised foray into Iraq may well prove the beginning of the end of America's global economic dominance.
Posted on Dec 8, 2005
George Bush's 'Strategy for Victory' speech will fade quickly. But his mess in Iraq will remain.
Posted on Dec 1, 2005
Just like Iraq, once again the Democrats are splitting on an issue that its most ardent supporters care greatly about. How much alienation can the party afford now?
Posted on Sep 22, 2005
In recent years, there has been no other Supreme Court justice who had a personal history so loaded with racism.
Posted on Sep 7, 2005
On the verge of massive political damage, Monday's White House briefing with the press was one big 'no comment' for spokesman Scott McCllelan.
Posted on Jul 12, 2005
The stem cell controversy sets Republican against Republican and distances party leaders from popular sentiment.
Posted on Jun 6, 2005
At Bush's primetime press conference, bland questions and false factoids. And Bush shoots himself in the foot on Social Security.
Posted on Apr 29, 2005
With prominent Republicans publicly denouncing him, how much longer will Tom DeLay survive as majority leader?
Posted on Apr 14, 2005
The recent report on the intelligence failure surrounding the war in Iraq served George Bush well, but not the American people.
Posted on Apr 5, 2005
I don't think we should forget how certain scoundrels crassly exploited this family conflict.
Posted on Mar 31, 2005
Wolfowitz's record on Iraq is one of miscalculation and exaggeration. And the poor of the world deserve a World Bank president with better judgment.
Posted on Mar 16, 2005
Ignoring the fact that America's image problem stems from policy and not P.R., Bush appoints his spin doctor Karen Hughes to fix it.
Posted on Mar 15, 2005
Can independent publishers step up and provide support to the progressive authors they seek to publish?
Posted on Mar 11, 2005
Bush's appointee to the new post of Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, has skated through appointments in the past, and is likely to do so again.
Posted on Feb 18, 2005
Whether speaking about the Iraq war, gay marriage or Social Security, in his State of the Union the president re-affirmed that he does not reside in a reality-based community.
Posted on Feb 4, 2005
Whether speaking about the Iraq war, gay marriage or Social Security, in his State of the Union the president re-affirmed that he does not reside in a reality-based community.
Posted on Feb 3, 2005
How many other right-wing pundits are on the administration payroll?
Posted on Jan 11, 2005
Easy to run for office, hard to govern: It didn't take long for problems to crop up for George Bush post-election.
Posted on Dec 23, 2004
The folks propagating the election theft hysteria would be better off focusing on the real culprit: our flawed election system.
Posted on Dec 1, 2004
Keep an eye on the highway to the Baghdad International Airport. That's where the Bush administration's rosy rhetoric meets the road.
Posted on Nov 22, 2004
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