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.


Trump's Tricky Transition Math

Column: How the narrow congressional majorities complicate Trump's plans

Resist the Global Intifada

Column: America must stand with Israel against the ICC

Meet the New Boss

Column: Trump reminds the Beltway what MAGA means

The Biden Error

Column: The events of 2020 seemed epochal. Trump's election exposed them as aberrant.

The Trump Flex

Column: The promise and perils of a confident campaign

It Takes Guts To Predict the 2024 Election

Column: How to tell if Harris or Trump has the edge

America is Moving Right. But for How Long?

Column: The politics behind Kamala Harris's ideological makeover

How Harris Bombed Her Media Blitz

Column: The vice president can't—or won't—fashion her own political identity

Harris Hits a Walz

Column: How Kamala Harris's first big decision backfired

America Must Side With Israel Against Hezbollah

Column: No more diplomatic games from Biden and Blinken