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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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Exxon Flips

By Matthew Yglesias

Jan 14 2007, 1:29 PM ET Comment

This is interesting. Via John Quiggin, ExxonMobil seems to have decided that global warming's real after all and should dedicate its lobbying efforts to designing CO2 control rules that spread the burdens of compliance widely rather than focusing in on energy firms (I think I may agree with this position on the merits and am certainly willing to explain why I agree, but before I do I think I'll hold out for a check from Exxon) narrowly. As part of the flip, Exxon is no longer going to fund the Competitive Enterprise Institute, producers of the hilarious "they call it pollution, we call it life" pro-carbon ads. CEI actually has a very broad pro-business, anti-regulatory agenda so they'll presumably be able to raise money from elsewhere.

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