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


The child benefit is an idea whose time has come.


The most right-wing government in Israeli history; security forces turn against protesters in Iraq; new Nutrition Facts labels coming in 2018.


What we actually know (not much) about the disappeared EgyptAir flight; Congress makes a deal to save Puerto Rico; a very un-Canadian fracas.


It’s complicated.

Surprisingly respectable; surprisingly conservative; surprisingly ... normal?


Donald Trump’s SCOTUS shortlist; sweeping new overtime rules; Democrats are getting chippy.




It’s the constitutions, stupid.


The Cultural Revolution and the politics of memory and forgetting; the Senate passes the Saudi 9/11 bill; time for another Olympic doping scandal!


SCOTUS’s contraceptive coverage case results in activist judging; things are officially Bad in Venezuela; the classiest section you’ll ever read about a penis transplant.