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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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By Matthew Yglesias

Oct 4 2006, 3:37 PM ET Comment

NBA analysis meets Middle Eastern geopolitics in John Hollinger's Indiana Pacers preview:

Signed Maceo Baston, let Scot Pollard leave. I'm a huge Baston fan based on the numbers he put up the past few years with Maccabi Tel Aviv, and I believe he'll be a productive NBA power forward. He came cheap, too, because he was understandably anxious to find a new employer once Hezbollah started firing rockets over the border. With three capable centers on hand already, Pollard won't be missed much.


Not that I follow Israeli basketball, but looking up Baston information online it seems that he found himself playing there in the first place because he's undersized relative to his big man skill set. A sort of classic type of guy who can succeed in college and in Europe but can't do very well in the NBA.

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