Matthew Yglesias
- Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. More
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.
If you were thinking to yourself, "you know what the world needs? more nuclear proliferation" then you've got to like this nuclear deal the Bush administration signed with India. If you think the USA really ought to clarify that the NPT is a dead letter, and that foreign countries shouldn't bother supporting our position on Iran since we pursue these things with no sense of principles or seriousness of purpose, the you ought to really love the deal.
You can read more here from Daryl Kimball and Joseph Cirincione, or just watch the video of Joe laying out the case above. One thing to note here is the rise of USINPAC as an influential actor in congress.
The Civil War
A 150th-anniversary commemorative issue, with Atlantic work by Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and others.
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