David Corn

About

Former editor of The Nation and a noted political journalist.

Before Fame

He graduated from Brown University in 1981.

Trivia

In 2012, he was the winner of the prestigious George Polk Award for Journalism.

Family Life

He married Welmoed Laanstra and had two daughters: Maaike and Amarins.

Associated With

Through reporting and skilled manipulation of a source, he obtained a recording of Mitt Romney at a $50,000 per-plate fundraiser belly-aching that 47% of Americans are "victims who depend on the government." It may have cost him the election.