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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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Galbraith on Trade

By Matthew Yglesias

May 10 2007, 10:49 AM ET Comment

I had kind of thought that now that I've left the Prospect I should reposition to the center by writing more about how the trade-skepticism and talk about the need for labor and environmental standards may make for good politics but doesn't really make sense on the merits. But, then, bam, here's James Galbraith making just that argument in TAP, so I guess it's not a good repositioning device any more. But it's still true!

This links up nicely with this discussion of different approaches to trade from Will Marshall and Ed Gresser. Galbraith and I are adhering to what Marshall and Gresser call the "social democrat" position -- namely an open economy with a strong welfare state -- as against "populist" trade skepticism and the DLC's "progressive modernizers" approach which as best I can from their description is focused on . . . doing what big business wants and then hoping for the best.

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