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 dylan.matthews@vox.com and on Twitter at @dylanmatt.
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Latest articles by Dylan Matthews
INR is “almost always right.” How come nobody has heard of it?
Who killed the prediction market?
Biden is acting like he hates the Chinese more than he likes the climate.
We eat pigs. Do we need them to process our urine too?
It is almost hard to believe just how effective vaccines are at saving infants’ lives.
Giving a kidney saves a life. Paying donors could fix the shortage.
Companies sometimes match donations to charity. What if the government did too?
Major reform on how the US gives money to other countries is breezing through the House with bipartisan support.
Researchers tried to get AI optimists and pessimists on the same page. It didn’t quite work.