Matt Yglesias

American political journalist and blogger — co-founder of Vox, author of One Billion Americans, and writer of the Slow Boring newsletter advocating for economically liberal, demographically ambitious politics.

Yglesias's distinctive contribution is applying economic reasoning to political questions in a way accessible to general audiences — arguing for housing deregulation, immigration expansion, and industrial policy from within mainstream liberalism. One Billion Americans made the case that population growth is strategically and economically essential for American power. Slow Boring exemplifies the serious policy newsletter model, willing to disagree with progressive orthodoxy on specific policy questions from within a broadly liberal framework.