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Dylan Matthews

Dylan Matthews

Former Senior Correspondent and Lead Writer

    Latest articles by Dylan Matthews

    Future Perfect
    23 things we think will happen in 202323 things we think will happen in 2023
    Future Perfect

    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.

    By Bryan Walsh, Dylan Matthews and 2 more
    22 predictions we made in 2022, and the 6 we got wrong
    Future Perfect

    Plus a couple that are halfway in between.

    By Bryan Walsh, Dylan Matthews and 2 more
    Future Perfect
    The tricky business of putting a dollar value on a human lifeThe tricky business of putting a dollar value on a human life
    Future Perfect

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

    By Dylan Matthews
    How effective altruism let Sam Bankman-Fried happen
    Future Perfect

    Profound philosophical errors enabled the FTX collapse.

    By Dylan Matthews
    How one man quietly stitched the American safety net over four decades
    The Highlight

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

    By Dylan Matthews
    Future Perfect
    Democrats have to head off another debt ceiling standoff while they still canDemocrats have to head off another debt ceiling standoff while they still can
    Future Perfect

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

    By Dylan Matthews
    Target Malaria’s scientists are working to rid Africa of an ancient plague
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

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

    By Dylan Matthews
    Jamila Michener knows that fighting poverty means fighting for democracy
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

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

    By Dylan Matthews
    Skanda Amarnath is figuring out how to fight inflation while keeping people employed
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

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

    By Dylan Matthews
    Hilary Greaves is the world’s leading philosopher of the long-term future
    The 2022 Future Perfect 50

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

    By Dylan Matthews