The Argument's Columnists

Dr. Alice Evans is a Senior Lecturer at King’s College London. Her forthcoming book is on “The Great Gender Divergence”: why the entire world has become more gender equal, and why some societies are more gender equal than others. “The Global Development Puzzle” is her next book, also with Princeton University Press.

Derek Thompson is the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book Abundance, with Ezra Klein. In addition to writing the Derek Thompson newsletter on Substack, he hosts the news podcast “Plain English” with the Ringer Podcast Network, which in 2025 was named one of the 100 best podcasts of all time.

Matt Bruenig is a labor lawyer who has worked for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Machinists Union, SEIU, UFCW, and UAW. Bruenig is also the founder of People’s Policy Project, a think tank that promotes socialist and social democratic policy.

Matt Yglesias writes the Slow Boring newsletter, co-hosts the Politix podcast, and is a columnist for Bloomberg. His most recent book was One Billion Americans.

Dr. Rachael Bedard is an internist, geriatrician and palliative care physician who worked as a physician on Rikers Island. In 2022, Bedard founded and ran an organization that supported pro-choice state ballot initiatives. She currently sees patients at a safety net clinic in Brooklyn.

Robinson Meyer is the founding executive editor of Heatmap News and the co-host of Heatmap’s podcast, Shift Key. He is also a contributing Opinion writer at The New York Times. Meyer was previously a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covered climate change, technology, and science.