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

Kamala Harris’ velvet curtain campaign

Vice President Kamala Harris is running a Wizard of Oz campaign, relying on her Flying Monkeys in the press to carry out all of her dirty work and whisk her back into the White House. Published August 26, 2024

The Crying Game convention: Childless Cat Lady vibes vs. A Man’s Man’s World

Welcome to the matriarchy. In the epic battle between Mars and Venus, insanity has won. And the Cat Ladies have taken over the Democrat Party. Published August 22, 2024

Forgotten, but not gone: Unburdening the Democrat Party of Biden

As a very wise and beautiful wife frequently points out, it is always best to take out the garbage just as soon as you realize it needs to be taken out. And don't forget to always replace the trash bag with a clean new one! Published August 20, 2024

Kamala Harris: Democrats’ latest marvel of political engineering

What does it say about Democrats today that all they want to talk about is getting un-pregnant? And sterilizing their men? Published August 19, 2024

Kamala Harris wins Olympic gold in flip-flop fakery competition

Now it is the Summer Olympics silly season -- after all the races have been run and all the high jumps have been jumped and all the swimming has been swum. Published August 12, 2024

Political media covers up accusations Harris rejected Jew as VP

Farewell, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, whose faith dare not speak its name. Published August 8, 2024

Who’s afraid of Kamala Harris?

If you have to lie in politics, you might as well make it the biggest lie you can think up. Published August 5, 2024

Democrats’ politics of the weird

Just two weeks since an assassin's bullet came within a fraction of an inch of killing former President Donald Trump during a speech on live national television, Google has already begun vanishing the story. Published July 29, 2024

Questions the Biden admin must answer (but don’t wait for the political press to ask)

Much like the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on July 13, Sunday's announcement that President Biden is withdrawing from his reelection campaign was as shocking as it was unsurprising. Published July 21, 2024

Beating Hollywood: Trump’s GOP steals the story

The party of Hollywood has lost the script. Democrats always enjoyed the star power of big-screen royalty such as George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Robert De Niro. Published July 18, 2024

Democrat media’s ‘Hitlerization’ of Trump no match for divine providence

With those words, brave men of comfort, good standing and great fortunes signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Published July 14, 2024

The Bidens’ last dance as Dr. Macbeth scrambles for family’s financial survival

First lady Jill Biden -- that's "doctor" to you! -- has been widely portrayed in recent weeks as some kind of scheming Lady Macbeth, propping up her husband and concealing his mental deterioration. Published July 10, 2024

Media insurrection: Bedwetters over Jan. 6 suddenly lose interest in ‘democracy’

You may have a hard time finding much written about this insurrection in the political press because it is the political press leading the charge in this insurrection. Published July 8, 2024

Stephanopoulos flinches, Biden’s brain buffers in first post-debate interview

George Stephanopoulos, the longtime Democratic Party hatchet man and former bushy-headed wunderkind of Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign, had only one job Friday night: Either save President Biden's campaign, or sink it. Published July 6, 2024

Joe and woe: Love in the time of dementia

You could call it The Tale of Two Joes. One on a leash and the other who holds a leash. One a slave. The other a master. Both named Joe. Published July 5, 2024

Soldiers of fortune: Bamboo jail cell in a Banana Republic

"Steve Bannon Is No Longer a Free Man," gloated one left-wing website. Monday this week was, by any measure, a dark and grave moment in American political history -- one concealed only by its absurdity. Published July 3, 2024

Democrats are the party of dementia, derangement and dysphoria

ATLANTA -- Like Alzheimer's, dementia and addiction, mental illness is an affliction that attacks whole families. Sometimes these diseases are actually worse for those not diagnosed with the disease, but rather sentenced to a special kind of hell caring for those who are -- out of love, obligation or family. Published July 1, 2024