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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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Ebb and Flow

By Matthew Yglesias

Dec 18 2006, 3:08 PM ET Comment

Iran's local elections seem to have gone poorly for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with his slate facing a variety of setbacks in local council elections. Someone who knows more about Iran than I do indicated that there was more significance in the results for something called the Experts' Council, where Ahmadinejad's allies also fared poorly. As Sam points out, however, despite all the attention he's gotten in the West, Ahmadinejad doesn't control Iran's foreign policy nor neither his ascendancy nor its reversal should have any potential implications. One doubts that such minor things as "recent events" or "accurate analysis of the Iranian government" will deter America's Iran hawks, however.

Speaking of which, two good policy papers on Iran out recent. Here's Justin Logan on why starting a war with Iran is a bad idea. Here's Flynt Leverett on how to strike a deal with Iran. And here's the White House trying to stop Leverett from publishing.

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