
Dylan Matthews
Former Senior Correspondent and Lead Writer
Latest articles by Dylan Matthews

Congress had never overridden an Obama veto — until today.


A bad night for Donald Trump; Elon Musk’s plan for a Mars shuttle; don’t look now, but we’re a few days away from a government shutdown.


It wasn’t really close.

The first presidential debate; new stats on crime in 2015; an update in the UN secretary general race.

Son-of-a-JFK-assassin-accomplice Ted Cruz endorses pathological liar Donald Trump; the DOJ’s war on science; it looks like Russia really is trying to meddle in the US election.


She borrowed the plan from … Bernie Sanders.

Tensions in Kashmir; this year’s MacArthur Genius Grant winners; how Clinton and Trump would govern.

The question we should be asking about the Clinton Foundation: Is it a good charity?

Protests in Charlotte after an (un?)(armed?) black man is killed by police; the US and Russia make a UN Security Council meeting on Syria super awkward; Brangelina, and America.

Turns out you can’t use your foundation to pay off lawsuits against your companies.