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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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Alternamom At Last

By Matthew Yglesias

Mar 12 2007, 10:41 AM ET Comment

I'd read David Brooks' critique; I'd read Michael Agger's defense, but today I think I met my very first real-life Alternamom ("hipster mom" is the term I would have used). Sporting stylish plastic frames, all-black attire, and a stroller that appears to have been sent from the future, here she is in 14U my very own hip U Street hang-out. Insofar as this social trend seems likely to result in more babies crying while I try to get my blog on, I have to say I agree with Brooks. Thank the lord for my Etymotics 6i earphones.

UPDATE: This is the stroller. "Popular with celebrities and the uber rich" according to the friend who tipped me off to its identity. I kind of want one. Could maybe use it to carry groceries?

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