Dylan Matthews
Former Senior Correspondent and Lead Writer
Latest articles by Dylan Matthews
The author of What We Owe the Future is taking complex ideas about morality and humanity’s future into the mainstream.
A third of suicides are due to pesticide consumption. The Center for Pesticide Suicide Prevention has a plan to prevent them.
The Lead Exposure Elimination Project is already getting results in countries where lead-based paint is still used.
The Princeton economist is using innovative techniques to explore how immigration has changed the world.
Mancur Olson’s The Rise and Decline of Nations shows how small groups can undermine broader prosperity.
Why the years from 1870 to 2010 were humanity’s most important.
The last Soviet leader was a flawed man — and a moral inspiration.
The cash group is on track to become one of the world’s leading global poverty charities.
Critics of effective altruist billionaires need to reckon with the hard political realities around inequality.
Effective altruism has gone mainstream. Where does that leave it?