Albert R. Hunt

Albert R. Hunt writes a weekly column for The Hill and co-hosts the 2020 Politics War Room podcast with James Carville. Previously, he was a Bloomberg View columnist and hosted Political Capital with Al Hunt on Bloomberg Television. In his four decades at the Wall Street Journal, he was a reporter, bureau chief, and executive Washington editor, and he wrote the weekly column “Politics & People.” Hunt also directed the Journal's polls, was president of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, and a board member of the Ottaway community newspapers. He was a panelist on the CNN programs The Capital Gang and Novak, Hunt & Shields. Hunt is co-author of books on U.S. elections by the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution.