
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


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.


Remember when elites cared about the rest of the world?


Remote work has surged. Is it about to all be automated away?


Tens of thousands of people will die if Trump’s war on USAID continues.


USAID has become a testing ground for dismantling government agencies, agency employees tell Vox.


How Trump could attempt to cut Medicaid, school funding, and more — without Congress.


Trump wants to “unleash American energy.” What does that mean?


The administration’s biggest achievement is something that almost no one has heard about.
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