Ride-sharing apps are good, actually - by Matthew Yglesias
Before we get to today’s post, we want to introduce two new Slow Boring staff members. Feel free to say hello in the comments!
Caroline Sutton is the assistant editor at Slow Boring, where she fact-checks, copyedits, and provides other editorial support. Previously, she edited policy and politics content at the Tony Blair Institute in London and wrote about US politics and foreign policy at Interzine, a digital magazine. She holds degrees from New York University and the London School of Economics. Originally from a small town in Kansas, she’s spent much of her adult life in Europe. These days, she’s usually in coastal North Carolina when not in DC. She’s especially interested in making smart policy ideas accessible — and exciting — to more people.
Halina Bennet is a writing fellow at Slow Boring. She’s a journalist whose reporting has taken her from Maine to Massachusetts to Manhattan. Most recently, she contributed to The New York Times’ coverage of student protests, visa policy, and major national events, including the Florida State University shooting and Hurricane Helene. Halina graduated from Bowdoin College in 2023, where she studied English and history and was a proud writer and editor for the college’s student-run newspaper. Her interest in how policy shapes people's lives began in Colorado, where she spent her childhood traveling her home state for her dad’s work as a public official. In her free time, Halina reads fiction, attends live music and theater, skis and hikes when she’s home and calls her sisters often. She’s excited to join the Slow Boring team and looks forward to helping expand the reporting!
