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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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NBA Christmas

By Matthew Yglesias

Dec 26 2006, 12:56 PM ET Comment

With the Heat winning a third straight Christmas Day matchup against the Lakers, isn't it time to retire this pseudo-tradition? Shaq, the ostensible source of interest in this drama, didn't even play and even if he had played everyone knows it's Wade's team at this point. Plus, Kobe and Diesel have at least officially buried the hatched. There's really just no there there. I'd be much happier if they went back to two games, and did rematches of the previous spring's Conference Championship games. It's frustrating, to me, that the League doesn't do a better job of trying to actually market NBA basketball at its finest instead of getting all gimmicky.

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