Mona
Charen
Mona Charen, syndicated columnist and author, is Policy Editor of The Bulwark, host of the weekly podcast Beg to Differ and co-host of the Just Between Us podcast. She is a contributor to TIME magazine and a regular commentator on BBC.
Mona Charen
Mona Charen, syndicated columnist and author, is Policy Editor of The Bulwark, host of the weekly podcast Beg to Differ and co-host of the Just Between Us podcast. She is a contributor to TIME magazine and a regular commentator on BBC.
Ms. Charen served as Nancy Reagan’s speechwriter and later as Associate Director of the Office of Public Liaison. Later in her White House career, she worked in the Public Affairs office helping to craft President Reagan’s communications strategy.
Ms. Charen launched her syndicated column in 1987. It is featured in more than 60 newspapers and websites. She spent 6 years as a regular commentator on CNN’s Capital Gang and Capital Gang Sunday has served as a judge of the Pulitzer Prizes. She is the author of four books: Useful Idiots (2003); Do-Gooders (2005), Sex Matters (2018) and Hard Right (2023).
In 2010, she received the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism.