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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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Gentrification

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 14 2007, 6:54 PM ET Comment

Outside Florida Avenue liquors:
Toothless African-American: Hey, yo, you want some CDs?

Prominent white political blogger: Not really [turns to walk away]

TAA: Yo, yo, hold up man. I got some white boy shit, here; some real weak-ass shit. You'll love it.

PWPB: No Thanks. [walking away]

TAA: What? You offended? You only want that hard stuff? Who you playin'?
I have to admit that the guy was making a decent point. Still, selling illegal CDs has to be a terrible line of work in the digital era.

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