Dylan Matthews
Senior Correspondent and Lead Writer
Dylan Matthews has since 2018 served as a senior correspondent and head writer for Future Perfect, Vox’s section that tells stories about people and institutions trying to do the most good for the world they can. He is particularly interested in global health and pandemic prevention, anti-poverty efforts in the US and abroad, economic policy and theory, and conflicts about the right way to do philanthropy.
Dylan joined Vox as one of our first three employees in February 2014, and has been here ever since, writing about everything from furries to foreign aid. In the distant past, he wrote for the Washington Post, the New Republic, The American Prospect, and Slate. He co-hosted The Weeds podcast, and can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter at @dylanmatt.
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Latest articles by Dylan Matthews
1.5 million people die from lead exposure a year. This new global partnership could change that.
Why are tariffs the only tax that Congress doesn’t need to approve?
SB 1047 would have been a landmark in AI safety. Gavin Newsom’s veto is a major setback in the fight against AI risk
On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world.
Kidney donors save lives. Why aren’t we compensated for it?
US Steel is a throwback to when American steel and American unions were powerful. Now it might be sold.
Organ companies are getting up to pancreas hijinks.
Why, and how, the US should fix its debt problem.
No, it isn’t a devious Democratic plan to destroy startups.
Giving people cash makes them less poor. It doesn’t fix everything.