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.
The Passion
of Paul Ryan
Column: Media help Democrats in slandering budget chairman and hastening America’s fiscal meltdown
Candidate of Fear
Column: Desperate for cash, president tries to scare women, antiwar groups, unions, Democrats into giving
K Street’s Payroll Deal Payoff
Lobbyists made millions pushing for spectrum auction provision in law
The Democrats’
K Street Gang
Reports of the culture of corruption’s demise are greatly exaggerated
The Sloppy Incumbent
Column: The once-invincible Obama campaign team has become mistake-prone
