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.


Why Freedom Conservatism Matters

Column: Ranks form in the battle for the American Right

Mike Pence and The Fight Over GOP Foreign Policy

Column: Support for Ukraine Is a winning issue

'Bidenomics' Won't Save This Presidency

Column: Joe Biden's problems run deeper than the economy.

Biden's (Iran) Deal That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Column: Appeasing Iran endangers America—and the world

Ronald Reagan's Path for American Renewal

Column: How to build a 'Creative Society' today

The Secret to McCarthy's Success

Column: The GOP speaker knows his role and plays it well

The DeSantis Doctrine

Column: Ron DeSantis and the battle for the New Right

The Very Invisible Republican Primary

Column: Trump wins if Republican challengers don't make a case against him

Biden Finds New Ways to Fail

Column: Our hubristic—and incorrigible—Progressive elite

Kevin McCarthy is elected next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

The Underestimated Kevin McCarthy

Column: How the speaker beats expectations