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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.

Lotto News

By Matthew Yglesias
May 23 2007, 9:20 AM ET Comment

The tragedy of draft lottery analysis is that the conclusion that the big winners here were Portland and Seattle lacks a certain depth. Mainly, the entire Western Conference must be breathing a sigh of relief that Atlanta got a top-three pick, so Phoenix doesn't wind up with a lottery pick with which to further stack their roster. Beyond that, who really knows what to say?

It seems to me that Chad Ford is probably wrong to think the Hawks will use their #3 pick on Mike Conley, if only because if there's one thing Atlanta's management is good at, it's passing on the opportunity to draft point guards despite the existence of a clear need. It'd be hilarious to see yet another long, athletic swingman heading to Georgia, but I think Corey Brewer should start developing a taste for peaches. Also -- whoever advised Joakim Noah to stay in school one more year gives really bad advice.

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