Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias is a former writer and editor at The Atlantic.

• Aim For Higher Inflation

  The Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee should announce a plan to target inflation at 3 or 4 percent

  Business / Jul 12, 2011

• In HBO's 'Treme', Realism Battles Sappiness

  The new David Simon series has its moments of painful sentimentality, but it seems poised to offer a refreshingly accurate picture of black neighborhoods in New Orleans

  Entertainment / Apr 9, 2010

• End the Vice Presidency

  For most of its history, the office of the vice presidency has been a curiosity rather than a danger, famous primarily for the disparaging…

  Magazine / July/August 2009

• The Silenced Majority

  The filibuster is obstructive, anachronistic, and undemocratic. It's time to kill it off for good.

  Magazine / January/February 2009

• Obama, Ayers, and Guilt By Association

  By Sarah Palin's logic, McCain should be held accountable for his association with Watergate burglar G. Gordon Libby.

  Magazine / October 2008

• The Rising

  With demography on its side, the emerging Democratic majority is about to arrive.

  Magazine / October 2008

• Good Night, and Good Luck

  Well, kids, today is my last day as an Atlantic blogger and this is my last Atlantic post. The blog should re-launch on Monday, August 11…

  Politics / Aug 1, 2008

• It's All Management

  Megan McArdle says we shouldn't blame bad management from GM's staggering $15 billion loss:The company is scrambling to retool for small cars, and…

  Politics / Aug 1, 2008

• Better Off

  Barack Obama paraphrases Ronald Reagan's famous question: "Are you better off than you were four or eight years ago?"Now personally, I'd say I'm much…

  Politics / Aug 1, 2008

• Getting Our Stereotypes Straight

  Ali Frick notes Michael Goldfarb expressing some displeasure that the NYT editorial page's blog didn't like his candidate's dumb ads. Here's Goldfarb…

  Politics / Aug 1, 2008

• Non-Mysteries

  With the fundamentals so favorable to Barack Obama, why can't he crack open a bigger lead against John McCain? What's wrong with him? Does he need to…

  Politics / Aug 1, 2008

• Must-See Fake TV

  Francis Fukuyama, ex-neocon, bloggingheadses with Robert Kagan, the wiliest and best-respected of the neos. I note, for the record, that Kagan's…

  Politics / Aug 1, 2008

• Preferences

  It really is too bad that in this country an accident of birth can get you preferential treatment and cushy jobs, when we should be building the kind…

  Politics / Aug 1, 2008

• War Spending

  Eric Umansky at Pro Publica has assembled some cool graphics on the fiscal cost of the Iraq war. As you can see below, the inflation adjusted dollar…

  Politics / Aug 1, 2008

• Rachel Maddow

  She's good:So there are all these liberals in the country. Probably if you took a smart liberal who performs well on television and made her the host…

  Politics / Aug 1, 2008

• Slate Revisited

  Enough people in the business have gotten in touch with me in a hurry to dispute the idea that Slate is a center-right publication that I'm starting…

  Politics / Aug 1, 2008

• Pakistani Intelligence Behaving Badly

  Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt report on evidence that Pakistan's ISI helped plan the bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul which is pretty…

  Politics / Aug 1, 2008

• Getting Away With It

  I'm pretty sure the behavior Wal-Mart is engaged in here, pressuring employees to vote for John McCain, is illegal. But the real scandal is what's…

  Politics / Aug 1, 2008

• At Last!

  Zvika Krieger reads about LibertyWire:Have you ever been reading Slate and found yourself thinking, "This is great, but if only if were more…

  Politics / Aug 1, 2008

• Freedom

  Ezra's damn right about this. Go to pretty much any populated part of the United States, buy some land, and try to build something on it and you'll…

  Politics / Aug 1, 2008

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