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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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Covers

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 27 2007, 2:12 PM ET Comment

For some reason, I find cover songs almost endlessly fascinating. Julian Sanchez remarked yesterday that "For some reason, I had remembered the Bangles cover of 'Hazy Shade of Winter' as being much better than it is." Similarly, up until yesterday I had recalled Orgy's cover of "Blue Monday" as bad, but then I heard it randomly and it's really, really, really bad. Conversely, the comment thread to Julian's post turned up a link to Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt", which is fantastic.

The true tragedy of the "Blue Monday" episode, however, is that they were covering a perfectly excellent song. The best covers, accordingly, are the ones that actually take a bad song and turn it into a good one. "Love Buzz" is what comes to mind, but there are others.

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