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Dylan Matthews

Dylan Matthews

Former Senior Correspondent and Lead Writer

    Latest articles by Dylan Matthews

    Future Perfect
    This man has donated at least 10% of his salary to charity for 11 years runningThis man has donated at least 10% of his salary to charity for 11 years running
    Future Perfect

    Toby Ord started the Giving What We Can pledge, and you can join in too!

    By Dylan Matthews
    10 enormously consequential things Biden can do without the Senate
    Explainers

    Joe Biden can have a consequential presidency even with a Republican Senate.

    By Dylan Matthews
    Future Perfect
    Biden could do a lot to fight factory farming even without CongressBiden could do a lot to fight factory farming even without Congress
    Future Perfect

    Biden’s agriculture secretary could confront factory farms, or coddle them.

    By Dylan Matthews
    Politics
    One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrongOne pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong
    Politics

    The kind of people who answer polls are really weird, and it’s ruining polling.

    By Dylan Matthews
    Joe Biden has won. Here’s what comes next.
    Politics

    Biden will have to overcome a surging pandemic, an economic crisis, and a hostile Republican Party.

    By Dylan Matthews
    How the press calls elections, explained
    Politics

    Calling elections is a high-stakes algebra problem. Here’s how it works.

    By Dylan Matthews and Kay Steiger
    How reality caught up with the reality TV president
    Politics

    The Trump show has been canceled.

    By Dylan Matthews
    Politics
    The legal theories of Amy Coney Barrett, explainedThe legal theories of Amy Coney Barrett, explained
    Politics

    An expert explains originalism, the Roberts Court, and what a Justice Barrett might do.

    By Dylan Matthews
    Politics
    Is Trump a fascist? 8 experts weigh in.Is Trump a fascist? 8 experts weigh in.
    Politics

    Call him a kleptocrat, an oligarch, a xenophobe, a racist, even an authoritarian. But he doesn’t quite fit the definition of a fascist.

    By Dylan Matthews
    4 winners and 5 losers from the last Biden-Trump debate
    Politics

    Joe Biden was a winner — as was moderator Kristen Welker.

    By Li Zhou, Dylan Scott and 7 more