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.


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Democrats Follow Bernie Sanders Off a Cliff

Column: The bad math and foolish politics of single-payer health care

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The Bodyguards of Kim Jong-Un

Column: Korean nukes are only part of Russia and China's war against the West

The Irrelevant Democrats

Column: Liberalism abandons the playing field

President Donald Trump delivers remarks on Americas military involvement in Afghanistan at the Fort Myer military base / Getty Images

Donald In the Great Game

Column: Try as it might, America cannot abandon its international role

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The Party of Trump

Column: America's new, combustible four-party system

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American Conservatism, 1945-2017

Column: What it's like to teach conservatism

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Bonfire of the Insanities

Column: A White House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand

President Donald Trump swings a Marucci baseball bat in the Blue Room during a "Made in America" product showcase event at the White House

The Eight Best Moments from Donald Trump's Interview with the New York Times

Column: The president's commentary defies analysis. As far as it goes.

Donald Trump gives his acceptance speech at his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in the early morning hours of November 9, 2016

The One Sentence That Explains Washington Dysfunction

Column: The political class never expected Donald Trump to become president

President Trump's Remarkable Warsaw Speech

Column: Nation-state populism, spirit, and the defense of civilization