👤 David Corn

11 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
11
2026-09-04 – 2026-11-04
Claims per article
61
675 extracted in total
Hedged claims
8%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
8,102
characters · 1 tagged analysis
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
91%
Entertainment
9%
Most-tagged topics
RussianOur LandRussiaAmericanDemocratsDemocraticHouseMoscow

Leaning

-0.61 average ± 0.12 · -0.65 median · 9 scored articles
Sits to the left of their own outlet, which averages -0.42 — the whole interval clears it. Leaning rates the writing, not the subject. How it is scored.

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-11-04 · Mother Jones · Politics
The Trump Hangover Election: Voters Proclaim, “What Were We Thinking?”
40 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
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
2026-11-03 · Mother Jones · Politics
Election Day and the Battle to Come
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left
2026-11-02 · Mother Jones · Politics
A Test for Trump’s Disinformation Operation
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-10-30 · Mother Jones · Politics
What’s MIA in the Trump–Putin Story
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left

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
2026-10-30 · Mother Jones
What’s MIA in the Trump–Putin Story
🔮 After I noted that Trump was now consummating his “man crush” on Putin, he asked whether it was possible Trump was pursuing the theory that it would be good for the United States, in terms of stability and prosperity, if the world were divided into spheres of influence dominated, respectively, by Russia, China, and the United States. assertive
2026-11-02 · Mother Jones
A Test for Trump’s Disinformation Operation
🔮 Even if you were in the restaurant, people would walk in and, like the Wild West, hold it up! assertive
2026-11-03 · Mother Jones
Election Day and the Battle to Come
🔮 But in the final days of the campaign, media outfits conducting surveys took the unusual step of pointing out that while they endeavor to calculate the right sampling for their polls—obviously, a fundamental step for accuracy—there was a chance they could be off the mark. assertive
2026-11-04 · Mother Jones
The Trump Hangover Election: Voters Proclaim, “What Were We Thinking?”
🔮 In Georgia, Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff cruised to reelection, and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms was decisively elected governor. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first. Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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