Dylan Matthews

1 week ago | vox.com | Dylan Matthews

Putting Americans back to work in factories isn’t just hard. It’s impossible. Dylan Matthews is a senior correspondent and head writer for Vox’s Future Perfect section and has worked at Vox since 2014. He is particularly interested in global health and pandemic prevention, anti-poverty efforts, economic policy and theory, and conflicts about the right way to do philanthropy.

1 week ago | matr.net | Dylan Matthews

Putting Americans back to work in factories isn’t just hard. It’s impossible. What’s happening is a transition from manufacturing to services that occurs in all countries as they get richer.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Dylan Matthews

4 hours agoThe number of Australians who trust Trump has fallen to 36%, the lowest since Lowy Institute's annual poll began two decades ago. President Donald Trump is looming large in the final weeks of Australia’s general election campaign, spelling trouble for conservative opposition leader Peter Dutton just …

3 weeks ago | vox.com | Dylan Matthews

The day this article goes up, April 2, has been pegged by President Donald Trump as “Liberation Day”: the day his suite of tariffs will go into effect and thus, in some unspecified sense, liberate the United States. The pre-history of this disastrous set of policies, which will only make America poorer and alienate it from its closest allies, is as long and weird as you’d expect from Trump.

3 weeks ago | vox.com | Dylan Matthews

If, on January 19, 2025, a day before Donald Trump’s inauguration, you had asked foreign aid experts, “does the US Agency for International Development (USAID) need reform?” most would have readily said “yes.” Not enough programs are evaluated for effectiveness; too much is run through a small number of private contractors; the foreign aid mission is fragmented across too many different departments, only some of which are under USAID’s purview. Then the monkey’s paw curled.