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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Lucky Jim

Column: Obama crony Jim Messina is in the empire business

Convergence of the Twain

Column: Why American foreign policy is headed for disaster

The Golden Egg

Column: The Hillary Papers and the Death of the Mainstream Media

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Fast Times at Eighth Avenue High

Column: Our adolescent media

The Big Chide

Column: What will the world look like in 2017?

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Love in the Time of Obama

Column: Alex Wagner, Sam Kass, and the new aristocracy

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The Rainmakers

Column: Where would Democrats be without Charles and David Koch?

Poverty Chic

Column: The latest political fashion

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The Obama Box

Column: What Obama’s TV picks really tell us about him

The Inequality Business

Column: What’s really at stake in the inequality debate