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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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Mass Transit

By Matthew Yglesias

May 25 2007, 10:11 AM ET Comment

What Michael O'Hare said. Let me just add that one thing which surprised me when I went to LA was the extent to which substantial portions of the city were actually much higher-density than I'd anticipated. I assume that at some point in LA's development the whole city really was low-density sprawl. It's also true that if you compare LA to New York City, it's all low-density. But a lot of LA looked quite a bit denser than Washington, DC; just laid-out differently and without reasonable transit options.

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