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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.

Global Test

By Matthew Yglesias
May 24 2007, 12:23 PM ET Comment

Brian Beutler directs my attention to the top ten finalists to become Hillary Clinton's campaign theme song.music_list.jpgThe major problem here is that a strikingly large proportion of these artists aren't even Americans. I mean: Shania Twain, Celine Dion? Is Clinton trying to tell us she's some sort of Canadian Communist? Tunstall's Scottish, U2 is Irish, it's all totally unacceptable. Brian says she should pick The Temptations, but I think Tina Turner is the way to go here. Retaining the loyalty of African-American women is the key to stopping Obama, and Turner is the best way to accomplish that and, as best I can tell, comes with no meaningful downside.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama's favorite musicians, according to Facebook, are Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, J.S. Bach, and the Fugees, making him the very model of the modern non-threatening black man. John Edwards cites Bruce Springsteen, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Natalie Allyn Wakeley Sleeth as artists he likes.

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