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 Reality Principle

Column: Obama and Biden were winning—until they faced actual opponents

On the Cannibals

Column: After debate, the media devour Obama and Lehrer

How to Buy an Election

Column: Just ask the Democrats

Obama’s Army

Column: Who needs elections when we have the mainstream media?

The World Obama Made

Column: The sun never sets on Obama’s failures

The Biggest Myth of 2012

Column: It’s the idea that liberal donors don’t ask for anything in return

The Salami Slice Presidency

Column: Obama’s reelection strategy is driving America apart

The Killing

Column: The battle to define Mitt Romney is over—and Romney lost

Attack of the Cookie Monsters

Column: The anti-Romney press is behaving like spoiled children

Wreck-It Barack

Column: Unscripted Moments Damage Obama’s Carefully Built Image