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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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Tapes 'N Tapes

By Matthew Yglesias

Oct 4 2006, 8:13 AM ET Comment

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Kevin Drum reminds us that not only does al-Qaeda want us to stay in Iraq, they also want the Republicans to stay in office and time the release of their bin Laden videos to advance GOP electoral fortunes. It's important to keep that in mind. John Kerry didn't suffer from "bad luck" in terms of having his campaign partially derailed by a late-October bin Laden tape, that happened intentionally and had the intended effect. It's only reasonable to assume there's a large probability something similar will happen over the next month or so and folks need to get the message out in advance that this is al-Qaeda's game.

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