Matthew Yglesias
Senior Correspondent
Matthew Yglesias co-founded Vox.com with Ezra Klein and Melissa Bell back in the spring of 2014. He’s currently a senior correspondent focused on politics and economic policy, and co-hosts The Weeds podcast twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Before launching Vox, he was the author of the Moneybag column for Slate and before that he wrote and blogged for Think Progress, The Atlantic, TPM, and The American Prospect. Yglesias is the author of two books, most recently “The Rent Is Too Damn High” about the policy origins of the middle class housing affordability crisis in America.
Yglesias was born and raised in New York City, but has lived in Washington DC since graduating college in 2003.
Latest articles by Matthew Yglesias
The former Senate majority leader, who died this week at 82, was a forward-thinking political strategist who played to win.
With low interest rates and divided government, it’s time for an ice cream party.
You know how the regular polls were wrong? Exit polls are much worse.
Joe Biden wins, and Martha McSally loves to lose.
Racial politics doesn’t always work how white liberals think it should.
Polls may be off, but almost certainly not for this specific reason.
He desperately wants to run against “the radical left” instead.
First, make it illegal to count votes quickly. Second, paint the slow count as suspicious.
To win, Trump needs a bigger polling error than in 2016.
Biden will probably win ... but he might not.