Matthew Continetti is a senior fellow 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.
Republicans Still Don't Get Trump
Column: Trade, immigration, and the new politics of sovereignty
So Long to the Iran Deal
Column: Donald Trump's staff shakeup is good for hawks—and terrible for Iran
The Second Era of No Decision
Column: How stagnation, inequality, and immigration create unstable majorities
The Missing Republican Agenda
Column: President Trump takes center stage as Congress moves to the background
American Populism: A User's Guide
Column: Donald Trump, Jeffrey Bell, and the future of Reaganism
The Back to the Future Democrats
Column: The party of Pelosi is trapped in identity politics
The Talking Stick Senators
Column: Senators with talking sticks won't solve America's problems