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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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Time Zones

By Matthew Yglesias

Apr 24 2007, 8:48 PM ET Comment

So here's a question as I'm watching the second quarter of the Heat-Bulls game even though it's only ten to six -- what do sports fans do here on the West Coast? You've gotten Eastern Conference playoff games starting at 4PM. You've got NFL games starting at 10 AM. I'm on vacation, so whatever, but this is madness. Sure, sure on more than one spring morning I've felt a bit weary because I stayed up late to watch a western game, but that's not nearly as big a deal as it simply being impossible to watch games if you have a job or asking football fans to wake up early on Sundays. It's probably nice for schoolkids but, seriously, they can't vote. Which brings me to the fact that I'm pretty sure I'm prepared to defend the claim that the 48 states should adopt a single time zone.

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