
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


Republicans are gutting the safety net as job-killing mass automation looms.


Trump wants to blow a $3 trillion hole in the budget. The bond market is saying “no way.”


The GOP remains a conspiracy to steal from the poor and give to the rich.


We can keep saving lives when foreign aid is dying.


How to block the next Covid in mid-air.


AI is the future. It just can’t predict it.


Putting Americans back to work in factories isn’t just hard. It’s impossible.


Tariffs aren’t helping globalization’s losers — they’re victimizing them again.


The brutal debate over how to rescue foreign aid.


It’s the 21st century — instant bank transfers should be the norm everywhere.