Matthew Yglesias

Washington, D.C.

Founder and Writer at Slow Boring

Columnist at Bloomberg News

Co-Host at Politix

Slow Boring, cohosting https://t.co/wxUj3JFSFf, Bloomberg columnist

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NBA officiating needs more bias

4 days ago | slowboring.com | Matthew Yglesias

The NBA playoffs are incredible (even when the Knicks get eliminated), but the regular season? It’s a bit of a snooze fest. This has always been an issue for the league. The regular season slog is essentially downstream of the fact that scoring is so common in professional basketball, which means less randomness in the outcomes. In soccer or hockey, even an inferior team is often just one lucky shot or weird clang off the crossbar from tying rather than losing.
Students Need More Challenges, Not Fewer Tests

5 days ago | bloomberg.com | Matthew Yglesias

What’s on the test? (Bloomberg Opinion) -- San Francisco announced and then swiftly reversed a new “grading for equity” initiative last week. The rapid reversal is a sign of a resurgent moderate wing of urban politics — and of a growing anxiety among Democrats that they are losing their traditional status as the party the public trusts on education.
Students Need More Challenges, Not Fewer Tests

5 days ago | flipboard.com | Matthew Yglesias

2 hours agoCustomize your iPhone like a pro with these iOS 18.5 settings adjustments. Apple's new iOS 18.5 for iPhone just arrived. It's the last update we may have for this iteration of iOS ahead of iOS 19 next month at WWDC. With its arrival, you might want to take some time out to make sure you're not …
Who are the groups?

1 week ago | slowboring.com | Matthew Yglesias

I missed this last week, but apparently, Elon Musk has been telling people that he’s going to do “a lot less” political spending in the future. Part of Slow Boring’s official case for donating money to Susan Crawford’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race was that the race was not only important for the merits for abortion rights and gerrymandering, but Musk was following up his 2024 spending with a big intervention in the race.
give to Harvard

1 week ago | slowboring.com | Matthew Yglesias

Last week, I did something that I’d never done before. Something that I thought I would never do and had, in fact, promised never to do. I gave money to my alma mater. It’s pretty normal American behavior. Our country’s colleges and universities count on alumni donations. I’m not rich enough to make the sort of donations that would get things named after me, but I make a good living and it’s important to me to support charities and causes I care about.
Politicians need to take AI progress seriously

1 week ago | slowboring.com | Matthew Yglesias

It’s hard to predict the future, but I think it’s possible that, by 2028, many of the issues that are crucial today will be swamped by concern about AI and its impacts on the world. This means we should be looking for political leaders who come across as smart and thoughtful on this topic. It also means that on substance, policy entrepreneurs should be putting more emphasis on helping politicians think through the implications, both positive and negative.
Discipline and Punish

1 week ago | politix.fm | Matthew Yglesias

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -37:25Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Brian is on vacation, so special guest McKenzie Wilson joins Matt to talk about Blue Rose Research’s retrospective on the 2024 election and their work on message-testing.
What we don't learn in "Original Sin"

1 week ago | slowboring.com | Matthew Yglesias

Like everyone in Washington, I’ve read the new Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson book, “Original Sin.” At this point, it’s been so widely discussed that I don’t think the world needs my takes on its main points. What I want to talk about instead is what I didn’t learn reading the book. And I say this not in the spirit of criticism — the book is a monumental piece of reporting and also short and readable, and I think the authors understandably wanted to get it out into the world.
Noah Smith on China, industrial policy and more

1 week ago | slowboring.com | Matthew Yglesias |Noah Smith

Noah Smith is probably the number one source of articles that hit my feed where I think “damn, I wish I’d written that.” So it was great to grab a chance to sit down and chat with him for almost 90 minutes today. We started out talking about the rising importance of batteries and electric motors, the Biden administration’s efforts to keep America in the game with China on this, and how Trump is squandering it.
Memorial Day chat with Matt Yglesias

1 week ago | noahpinion.blog | Noah Smith |Matthew Yglesias

I really enjoy Substack’s chat feature! Today Matt Yglesias joined me for a wide-ranging discussion about politics, policy, technology, and other fun stuff. We didn’t do Q&A, but next time we will!Here were my key takeaways from the chat:Electric technology (batteries and motors and some other stuff) is incredibly important, and will eventually take over. But almost no one in America seems to realize how important it is. Fortunately, I think I have fully electric-pilled Matt.