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.


The Call of Freedom

Column: Giving thanks for the world's most powerful idea

The Great American Earthquake

Column: Can the foundations of our society hold?

Trump Year One

Column: Personal eccentricity, political conventionality

How Class Realignment Broke the Democrats

Column: The Democratic 'sanity bubble' is a shield against popular support

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Editor's Note

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What We Can Learn From World War II

Column: Victor Davis Hanson's masterful 'Second World Wars'

President Donald Trump is flanked by GOP senators to discuss health care

Repeal and Replace In Farsi

Column: Will Republicans have President Trump's back on Iran?

President Trump Departs White House En Route To Puerto Rico

Pop Goes the Liberal Media Bubble

Column: Trump drives the mainstream media to abandon the pretense of objectivity

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The First Primary in the Party of Trump

Column: Roy Moore, Mitch McConnell, and America's class divide