Free Beacon Matthew Continetti

Matthew Continetti is director of Domestic Policy Studies and the inaugural Patrick and Charlene Neal Chair in American Prosperity at the American Enterprise Institute. The founding editor of the Washington Free Beacon, he is also the author of The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine (Doubleday, 2006); The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star (Sentinel, 2009); and The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism (Basic, 2022). His articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic, and Wall Street Journal.


Xi Jinping

How to Make China Pay

Column: Engage Taiwan, boycott the 2022 Olympics, and impose a carbon tariff

Joe Biden

Biden’s Long Hot Summer

Column: The president’s ‘transformative’ agenda runs into reality

Biden Tlaib

The Revolution Comes for Israel

Column: What makes this war different—and disturbing

Milton Friedman's Revenge

Column: The specter of inflation haunts Joe Biden’s presidency

Biden's One Hundred Days of Hubris

Column: Presidents who misremember history are doomed to repeat it

Biden Trips on the Border

Column: The one issue where the White House plays defense

The Question Biden Won't Answer

Column: Will the government of Afghanistan survive America's retreat?

Biden Builds Back Obama's Middle East

Column: And makes a mockery of his democracy agenda

The Working-Class GOP: A Muddled Concept

Column: A favorite Republican catchphrase deserves higher scrutiny