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Matthew Yglesias
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Journalist and policy writer who co-founded Vox in 2014 and started the Slow Boring newsletter on Substack in 2020. Known for advocacy of housing abundance and for books including Heads in the Sand, The Rent Is Too Damn High and One Billion Americans. Writes Slow Boring and also publishes in Politix and The Argument. Appears as a guest on The Ezra Klein Show, Plain English with Derek Thompson, Conversations with Coleman and Central Air.
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Matthew Yglesias hosts and writes Slow Boring (Matt Yglesias) , hosts and writes Politix , hosts and writes The Argument , hosts The Argument , writes Central Air , writes Commonplace , writes The Fifth Column , writes Understanding AI , writes Off Message , writes Noahpinion and writes Sam Harris . They have also been a guest on Plain English with Derek Thompson (4 times) , The Ezra Klein Show (2 times) , Conversations with Coleman (2 times) , 80,000 Hours Podcast , Zeteo , Columbia Energy Exchange , Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing , Yascha Mounk , Capitalisn't , Reasonably Optimistic , Mehdi Unfiltered and The Talk Show With John Gruber . They also write for Capital Commonsense on Substack.
Recently: “Midterms Deep Dive: An exclusive election model update and poll release” on The Argument (October 2026); “The underrated — but hated — insights of Econ 101” on Slow Boring (Matt Yglesias) (October 2026); ““The Argument” podcast, ad free: The human condition in the age of A.I.” on Slow Boring (Matt Yglesias) (October 2026); “How I would fix all of America’s major problems” on Slow Boring (Matt Yglesias) (October 2026); “Hannah Arendt hates you” on The Argument (October 2026); “A pastor, a Tejano singer, and a slew of salmon and Sullivans walk into a midterm” on Slow Boring (Matt Yglesias) (October 2026).
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