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Matthew Yglesias - Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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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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Fred Thompson? Really?

By Matthew Yglesias

Mar 27 2007, 8:34 AM ET Comment

I myself have noted how pathetic the current field of GOP presidential candidates is, but like a lot of liberals I'm scratching my head over the Fred Thompson concept. Yes, Thompson has the advantage of being a conservative Republican. But once we expand the field to include not just senators and governors but former senators and governors as well -- ones who've never accomplished anything in public life, to boot -- then the field looks very wide indeed. Where's Tommy Thompson? Why not Larry Craig? Why not embalm Ronald Reagan's corpse Lenin-style and run it? There's lots of conservatives out there.

At any rate, I hope Thompson does get in the race and it somehow leads to The Hunt for Red October being on television more. His stint on Law and Order was terrible, but I love me a good submarine movie.

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