


įrom June 2007 until August 2008, he was a staff writer at The Atlantic Monthly, and his blog was hosted on the magazine's website, The Atlantic. His posts appeared regularly on the magazine's collaborative weblog TAPPED. Yglesias joined the American Prospect as a writing fellow upon his graduation in 2003, subsequently becoming a staff writer. Yglesias started blogging in early 2002, while still in college, focusing mainly on American politics and public policy issues, often approached from an abstract, philosophical perspective. Crawford now serves as editor for his Slow Boring newsletter. Yglesias and Crawford met in 2008, and have one son together. He attended Harvard University, where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent and graduated in 2003 with a B.A. Yglesias went to high school at the Dalton School in New York City.

His paternal grandfather was of Cuban and Spanish Galician descent, and his three other grandparents were of Eastern European Jewish descent. His paternal grandparents were novelists Jose Yglesias and Helen Yglesias (née Bassine). Yglesias's father Rafael Yglesias is a screenwriter and novelist, and he has a brother named Nicolas. He also cohosts Grid's podcast "Bad Takes" with Executive Editor Laura McGann, the former Politics and Policy Editor at Vox consisting of conversations between McGann and Yglesias on a “bad take” they’ve seen on the internet. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center. He is an editor-at-large at Grid, a website of current affairs reporting with a lens on interconnections amongst major challenges. In November 2020, he left his position as an editor and columnist at the news website Vox, which he co-founded in 2014, to publish the Substack newsletter Slow Boring. Yglesias has written columns and articles for publications such as The American Prospect, The Atlantic, and Slate. Matthew Yglesias ( / ɪ ˈ ɡ l eɪ s i ə s/ born ) is an American blogger and journalist who writes about economics and politics.
