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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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The Con

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 13 2007, 11:57 AM ET Comment

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Word to the wise -- no fan of woman-fronted Canadian indie rock's record collection will be complete without Tegan & Sara's The Con. Given my general inclinations, I don't understand why it took me until last week to get my hands on So Jealous, but their both great. "Hop a Plane" on the new record wins bonus points for incorporating a "Clash City Rockers" riff into the beginning.

Filter observed that that track and the preceding one ("Back in Your Head") "are a little bit poppier and carefree-er, but we're probably not likely to hear them at baseball games, like we did 'Walking With a Ghost.'" This is probably true insofar as any particular song is extremely unlikely to get played at baseball games, but I'd say that "Hop" is definitely poppier than anything on So Jealous.

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