
Dylan Matthews
Former Senior Correspondent and Lead Writer
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The show was known as unusually progressive on gender and sexuality. Then this happened.


The US flag flies over the embassy in Havana again, and ISIS is using chemical weapons against the Kurds and mass rape against the Yazidi.


Explaining the yuan’s sharp drop; why the Watts riots still matter; and another presidential sex scandal (spoiler: the president is Harding).


He was quite possibly the most racially progressive president from Grant until LBJ.


In 1820, you had a 94 percent chance of being in extreme poverty. Today it’s 14 percent.


A northeastern Chinese city shaken by mysterious explosions; Pennsylvania’s attorney general blames her upcoming trial on a porn conspiracy; and the NFL Deflategate scandal is in federal court.


Page thinks innovative companies, not charities, are the best tools for improving the world.


The dating/hookup app is gaining users at a rapid clip. So what is it?


Why you should care that Google is becoming Alphabet; is sex work a human right?; and the baffling presidential campaign of Lawrence Lessig.


The Harvard law professor has never run for elected office before.