Matthew Continetti is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and founding editor of The Washington Free Beacon. The author of The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine (Doubleday, 2006) and The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star (Sentinel, 2009), his articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Atlantic, and Wall Street Journal. He lives in Virginia.