
Dylan Matthews
Former Senior Correspondent and Lead Writer
Latest articles by Dylan Matthews


Will Biden and Trump remain the frontrunners? Will Putin remain in charge of Russia? Will China start a war? These and other forecasts of the year to come.

Plus a couple that are halfway in between.


The EPA’s draft “social cost of carbon” analysis opens up a knotty discussion about US lives versus lives abroad.

Profound philosophical errors enabled the FTX collapse.

Robert Greenstein isn’t a household name. But his career lobbying for the poor has changed the lives of millions of Americans.


The lame-duck Congress can avoid the next debt ceiling crisis. They just need to act.

Fred Aboagye-Antwi, Mamadou Coulibaly, Abdoulaye Diabate, and Jonathan Kayondo are developing a groundbreaking “gene drive” approach to eradicating malaria.

The Cornell political scientist is doing groundbreaking research on why marginalized people’s demands are often ignored.

The head of Employ America has swiftly become one of the most influential voices lobbying the Federal Reserve to save workers.

The Oxford researcher is asking hard questions about what we know, how soon we can know it, and why it matters.