👤 David Corn

7 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
7
2026-09-04 – 2026-10-16
Claims per article
60
421 extracted in total
Hedged claims
9%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
8,365
characters
Writes for Mother Jones.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
86%
Entertainment
14%
Most-tagged topics
RussianRussiaMoscowOur LandAmericanAnonymousBahamasBurisma

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
5 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.37 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-22 · Mother Jones · Politics
Time to Revisit Trump-Russia Collusion
21 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-09-09 · Mother Jones · Entertainment
Gloria Steinem, a Dangerous Woman
19 outlets covered this event
2026-10-16 · Mother Jones · Politics
Whitewashing Tucker Carlson
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left
2026-09-24 · Mother Jones · Politics
How a Russian Attack on the Midterms Deepfaked Mother Jones
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-09-19 · Mother Jones · Politics
Your Questions About Trump, Putin, and Russia’s Election Interference Answered
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-09-11 · Mother Jones · Politics
Will Putin’s Decade-Long War on US Elections Hit the Midterms?
no other outlet in the corpus covered this

What they said would happen

2026-09-04 · Mother Jones
Why Is Trump’s DOJ Still Helping the Russian-Linked Liar Who Smeared Biden?
🔮 They will argue that a mysterious former FBI informant with connections to Russian intelligence—who was convicted of lying to the bureau to spread the false accusation that Joe Biden and his son Hunter each received a $5 million bribe from Ukraine—should be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea and get a new trial. assertive
2026-09-09 · Mother Jones
Gloria Steinem, a Dangerous Woman
🔮 Yet no one could accuse Gloria, the pioneering feminist who died this week at the age of 92, of eschewing fun…and sex. assertive
2026-09-11 · Mother Jones
Will Putin’s Decade-Long War on US Elections Hit the Midterms?
🔮 In May 2020, Derkach again boosted Giuliani’s get-Biden operation by releasing audio of calls between Biden and a former Ukrainian president, claiming they showed “international corruption and state treason.” assertive
2026-09-19 · Mother Jones
Your Questions About Trump, Putin, and Russia’s Election Interference Answered
🔮 On Friday morning, I hosted a Reddit AMA, in which participants could ask me anything. assertive
2026-09-22 · Mother Jones
Time to Revisit Trump-Russia Collusion
🔮 Still, Trump, Trump Jr., Manafort, and other Trumpers would loudly assert throughout the campaign and in the years afterward that Putin had not interfered. assertive
2026-09-24 · Mother Jones
How a Russian Attack on the Midterms Deepfaked Mother Jones
🔮 A few days ago, an X user called роман—which is Russian for the name “Roman”—posted a purported Mother Jones video that reported that the Democratic National Committee paid a whopping $259 million to Mark Thompson, the head of CNN, so the cable news network would promote “gender transition among children. assertive
2026-10-16 · Mother Jones
Whitewashing Tucker Carlson
🔮 He peddled the bonkers idea that the January 6 riot was a false flag operation orchestrated by the Deep State so it could round up Trump supporters, and he said the rioters were “right” to believe the election had been rigged. assertive
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