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Matthew Yglesias was born on 18 May, 1981 in United States, is an American blogger and journalist (born 1981). Discover Matthew Yglesias's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 42 years old?
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Matthew Yglesias (born May 18, 1981 ) is an American blogger and journalist who writes about economics and politics.
Yglesias has written columns and articles for publications such as The American Prospect, The Atlantic, and Slate.
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.
In 2002, Yglesias was a strong supporter of invading Iraq, Iran and North Korea, calling the countries on his blog "evil" and stating that "we should take them all out", although he was critical of the term "axis of evil".
He attended Harvard University, where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent and graduated in 2003 with a B.A. magna cum laude in philosophy.
Yglesias joined the American Prospect as a writing fellow upon his graduation in 2003, subsequently becoming a staff writer.
His posts appeared regularly on the magazine's collaborative weblog TAPPED.
From 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.
Yglesias and Crawford met in 2008, and have one son together.
Crawford now serves as editor for his Slow Boring newsletter.
In July 2008, he announced that he would leave The Atlantic Monthly for the Center for American Progress where he wrote for its blog, ThinkProgress, because he missed "the sense of collegiality that comes from working with like-minded colleagues on a shared enterprise" and thought he could "help advance their mission."
In 2010, he called his attitudes about the war a mistake.
In or before 2010, Yglesias coined the term "pundit's fallacy" to denote "the belief that what a politician needs to do to improve his or her political standing is do what the pundit wants substantively."
On November 21, 2011, he left ThinkProgress to work as a business and economics correspondent at Slate's Moneybox.
In 2011, The Economist noted that Yglesias has been accused of espousing "left-leaning neoliberalism" in his writing.
In 2012, Yglesias stated that he voted for Mitt Romney when he won the office for governor of Massachusetts in 2002.
In 2013, Yglesias garnered controversy for his statements about the 2013 Dhaka garment factory collapse, with Yglesias arguing that the lower building standards that partially led to the factory's collapse make "economic sense" in developing countries, later tweeting that "foreign factories should be more dangerous than American factories" and "the current system of letting different countries have different rules is working fine."
His comments were widely criticized in The Daily Beast, Time and other outlets, with The Guardian commenting that Yglesias is "confusing a person's human worth with their socio-economic status. That's wrong."
Yglesias later clarified some of his comments, but stood by his original position.
In 2014 he co-founded the news website Vox.
In 2017, Vice listed Yglesias among a group of political writers who were attached with a "neoliberal shill" label in left-wing Twitter communities.
Yglesias deleted his past Twitter feed in November 2018, after controversy over tweets which defended the motivation of protesters who gathered outside the house of Tucker Carlson.
The tweets also expressed a lack of empathy for Carlson's wife, which caused outrage.
Yglesias himself embraced the "neoliberal shill" label in a 2019 podcast.
In November 2020, he left his position as an editor and columnist Vox to publish the Substack newsletter Slow Boring.
In the same month, he joined the Niskanen Center as a Senior Fellow.
Yglesias's father Rafael Yglesias is a screenwriter and novelist, and he has a brother named Nicolas.
His paternal grandfather was of Cuban and Spanish Galician descent, and his three other grandparents were of Eastern European Jewish descent.
Yglesias went to high school at the Dalton School in New York City.
On November 13, 2020, Yglesias announced that he would no longer be writing for Vox.com.
Yglesias moved to Substack for editorial independence.
Yglesias authored the political nonfiction book One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger, released on September 15, 2020.
According to an analysis by British digital strategist Rob Blackie, Yglesias was one of the most commonly followed political writers among Biden administration staff on Twitter.
Andrew Sullivan, a fellow blogger, takes nominations on his blog for the Yglesias Award, an honor "for writers, politicians, columnists or pundits who actually criticize their own side, make enemies among political allies, and generally risk something for the sake of saying what they believe."