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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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Flipping, Flopping, Romneying

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 13 2007, 8:42 PM ET Comment

John McCain's campaign has put together this video of Mitt Romney, apparently still pro-choice, some six months after his alleged conversion to the anti-choice cause:



The pro-Romney spin here is that he was just sticking with his 2002 campaign promise not to change the state's abortion laws. In short, he didn't want to flip-flop. But the problem with this defense is that the Romney campaign's story is that he did in fact flip-flop back in 2004.

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