ABOUT THIS AUTHOR

ALBERT R. HUNT ran the Washington Bureau of The Wall Street Journal and then Bloomberg News. He has written a column about American politics for a quarter-century and was a mainstay on public affairs television programs. Hunt has been a panelist on PBS’s Washington Week in Review, was a regular on CNN’s Capital Gang, and hosted Political Capital with Al Hunt on Bloomberg Television. He was awarded the National Press Foundation’s distinguished citation, a recipient of a Raymond Clapper Award for Washington reporting, the William Allen White Award for outstanding journalistic service, and, with his wife, Judy Woodruff, the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media. Hunt currently teaches a course on the press and politics at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School of Communication, cohosts the podcast Politics War Room with James Carville, and writes a regular column for The Messenger.