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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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In Perspective

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 20 2007, 1:07 PM ET Comment

Here's Hillary Clinton at the Take Back America conference this morning:



Watching it is a reminder of something that came up over dinner last night, namely that it's important to keep this primary campaign in perspective. For all that Hillary Clinton's campaign has positioned her to the right of where Barack Obama or John Edwards are, she's running on an emerging platform that's more progressive than what John Kerry (or, for that matter, Edwards) was putting on the table in 2004. For a couple of years after 9/11, the whole American political discourse swung sharply to the right ("de-arrangement" Judis & Teixeira call it; see Kilgore for more) and now things are swaying the other way.

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