Charles Hurt

Charles Hurt is the Opinion Editor and a columnist for The Washington Times. Often seen as a Fox News contributor on the cable network’s signature evening news roundtable, Mr. Hurt in his 20-year career has worked his way up from a beat reporter for the Detroit News and Washington correspondent for the Charlotte Observer before joining The Washington Times in 2003. He later served as D.C. bureau chief and White House correspondent for the New York Post and editor at the Drudge Report. He can be reached at churt@washingtontimes.com.

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Columns by Charles Hurt

FILE - Democratic candidate for Georgia Governor Stacey Abrams poses for a portrait in front of the State Seal of Georgia on Aug. 8, 2022, in Decatur, Ga. The Georgia governor's race is a rematch of 2018, when Brian Kemp narrowly defeated Stacey Abrams. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Ghosts of Democrats’ future only bring a ‘vortex of misery’

With the Democrat party in full, fiery conflagration two weeks before the midterm elections, now is a good time to take a quick peek at the party's leaders -- present and future. Published October 24, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks about the ongoing federal response efforts for Hurricane Ian from the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington on Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

‘Buzzkill’ Biden’s financial pandemic looms over midterm elections

Welcome to the "Buzzkill" Biden Financial Pandemic. The Democrats' Globalist Pandemic. Published October 20, 2022

Holy Obama Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The Chosen One returns: Obama back to save his Democrats

Barack Obama is Risen! Published October 17, 2022

The Achievements of President Biden Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Light up, America, and cast your ballot this year on Biden’s terrible record

It took a fake news anchor on "Saturday Night Live" to finally ask the question the fake political media in Washington has been ignoring for years. Published October 13, 2022

Georgia GOP Senate nominee Herschel Walker smiles during remarks during a campaign stop at Battle Lumber Co. on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022, in Wadley, Ga. Walker's appearance was his first following reports that a woman who said Walker paid for her 2009 abortion is actually mother of one of his children - undercutting Walker's claims he didn't know who she was .(AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Georgia Democrats’ desperate bid to sack Herschel Walker

The devil has gone back down to Georgia. Published October 6, 2022

Democrats' abortion vote illustration by The Washington Times

Democrats cling to abortion

As Sherlock Holmes famously observed, it's often the dog that didn't bark who cracks the case. Published October 3, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks during an event on health care costs, in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden’s ‘geriocracy’ reaches constitutional crisis levels

Sparta was a gerontocracy, famously ruled by wise, experienced Greek elders. It worked pretty well. Published September 29, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks during a Democratic National Committee event at the National Education Association Headquarters, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The ‘Biden Touch’ of misery

The country is melting down under the flames of historic inflation, rampaging crime, record gas prices, an unprecedented invasion at the border and a growing threat of nuclear war. Published September 26, 2022

Immigrants aboard the Governor head out of Vineyard Haven, Mass., for Woods Hole, Mass., Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. They were being transported on the Yankee Bus. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took the playbook of a fellow Republican, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, to a new level by catching officials flat-footed in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., with two planeloads of Venezuelan migrants. On Friday, the migrants were being moved voluntarily to a military base on nearby Cape Cod, Mass. (Ron Schloerb/Cape Cod Times via AP)

Racist residents of Martha’s Vineyard exposed

The only problem with those illegal aliens dumped on Martha's Vineyard? They weren't housekeepers and yard workers. Published September 19, 2022

Illustration on crime in America by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Time to hold Biden and Democrats accountable for defunding police

In times of peace, elections are almost always about the economy. As ex-President Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign memorably scolded: "It's the economy, stupid!" Published September 15, 2022

A person falls from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, after terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin 110-story towers. Associated Press photographer Richard Drew talks about AP’s coverage of 9/11 and the events that followed. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ** FILE **

Remembering the most haunting image of 9/11

The sights and sounds on that crisp, cloudless morning of Sept. 11, 2001, seem like yesterday. Published September 12, 2022

In this June 16, 2021, file photo U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

As a queen lay dying, AOC poses for another star turn in her own fantasy

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a legend in her own mind. A rock star with an air guitar. The leading actress in a movie all about her that was never made -- and never will be. Published September 8, 2022

Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., questions Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount during a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Don’t believe the lying media: Republicans in strong position to take House, even Senate

The political press -- along with desperate Democrats -- have been in full propaganda mode lately. They insist that despite all these headwinds, Democrats are cruising towards victory in November. Published September 5, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks at the National Association of Counties 2022 Legislative Conference, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden must pay for the lies, death, war, and misery he has inflicted on the world

The FBI raided former President Donald Trump's private residence because President Joe Biden would rather talk about Mr. Trump other than his own catastrophic record going into the next election. Published September 1, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks during a rally hosted by the Democratic National Committee at Richard Montgomery High School, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, in Rockville, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In the Babbling Land of Babylon, Biden is king

Brandon the Unifier strikes again! Published August 29, 2022

President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt forgiveness in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden wages war on America’s innocent hardworking taxpayer

Robbing the poor to give to the rich. Published August 25, 2022

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore speaks during a conversation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) ** FILE **

Doomsday climate disaster mongers Gore and Biden

The truth keeps getting more and more inconvenient. Just ask the inventor of the internet, the former vice president and America's forever "next president" Albert Gore. Published August 22, 2022

Biden foreign policy illustration by The Washington Times

America last: Biden’s back-foot diplomacy

In a city of 10 million people, just 15 miles from the North Korean border -- bristling with nuclear warheads -- international diplomacy is not some kind of State Department parlor game. Published August 18, 2022

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2017, photo, North America's tallest peak, Denali, is seen from a turnout in Denali State Park, Alaska. National park rangers in Alaska on Friday, May 6, 2022, resumed an aerial search for the year's first registered climber on North America's tallest peak after he didn't check in with a friend. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)

Alaska: Fiercely individualistic and America’s final frontier

People don't come up to Alaska looking for handouts. Published August 15, 2022

The entrance to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is shown, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump said in a lengthy statement that the FBI was conducting a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and asserted that agents had broken open a safe. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

Bear hunting in Mar-a-Lago

If you are going to shoot a grizzly bear, you better kill it. Published August 9, 2022