David Corn is the Washington editor of The Nation, the oldest political weekly in America, and a Fox News Channel contributor. He has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe, Newsday, Harper's, The New Republic, Mother Jones, The Washington Monthly, the LA Weekly, the Village Voice, Slate, Salon, TomPaine.com, Alternet.org, and many other publications.

He is the author of the biography Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades (Simon & Schuster, 1994). 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's 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." He is co-author, with Michael Isikoff, of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War.

Corn is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University.