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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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Defending Mitt

By Matthew Yglesias

May 11 2007, 6:38 PM ET Comment

In the interests of bipartisan comity, let me say that I disagree with those who think "a vote for Romney is a vote for Satan." Romney is not Satan. He's a former businessman and a competent manager with a bit of a taste for political opportunism. I have some bad things to say about the man, but he's not Satan or even in league with Satan and to say otherwise is unfair.

I think it's too bad that this Mormon business will almost certainly sink Romney's campaign (this probably won't help either) since my guess is that he'd be a better president than the other leading GOP contenders. (Link via Chris Orr).

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