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.


A Dictator’s Best Friend

Column: Obama rescues tyrants from Havana to Damascus

Barack Obama, Al Sharpton

National Conversations Are Worthless

Column: Especially when Al Sharpton is talking

Liberalism Is a Hoax

Column: Public relations in the service of the left

Christopher Nolan’s Cosmos

Column: How the legendary director manipulates reality

The De Blasio Democrats

Column: Liberal, extreme, and contemptuous of public opinion

detainees sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Brownsville,Texas

The Next Border Crisis

Column: How Congress can fight Obama’s unconstitutional amnesty

The Biggest Loser

Column: It was Hillary Clinton

Ben Rhodes

The Coming Détente with Iran

Column: Deputy National Security Adviser: Iran Deal ‘Is Healthcare For Us’

The Poison Tree

Column: Islamic State and Hamas are branches of single Islamist threat

The Macaca Democrats

Column: Why the GOP Is Winning Election 2014