David Corn

David Corn is Mother Jones' Washington, D.C. bureau chief.

	Views Wednesday, January 21, 2009 A Bad-Weather Speech for Bad-Weather Times With over a million exhilarated Americans filling the space between the civic shrines of the Capitol and the Washington Monument on the National Mall, President Barack Obama, in the first American inaugural address delivered by a black man, acknowledged the enthusiasm and hope he and his victory have inspired, but his speech was not overly celebratory. Read more
	Views Thursday, January 15, 2009 Why Eric Holder Represents What's Wrong with Washington Eric Holder Jr., by all accounts, is a decent, smart, caring, competent fellow. President-elect Barack Obama's pick to be attorney general had a brilliant career in public service: he graduated from Columbia University law school, worked at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, was a trial attorney at the Justice Department, a Superior Court judge in Washington, DC, a US attorney, and, then deputy attorney general. Read more
	Views Tuesday, January 13, 2009 No Soul, No Regret: George W. Bush's Non-Mea-Culpa Tour 2009 George W. Bush the wise and somber presidential veteran. Read more

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