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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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Knocked Up?

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 8 2007, 9:30 AM ET Comment

panda

Mei Xiang, our local panda here in Washington, DC, is experiencing elevated hormone levels that may indicate pregnancy. Here's hoping. Young Tai Shan is scheduled to be handed back to the Red Chinese soon, so we could use a new baby panda. I'm a bit puzzled that the zoo can't determine this with a greater degree of certainty. "There's no reliable pregnancy test for pandas," says the article, which backs up other news accounts I've read. But why can't they use a panda ultrasound and look around?

Photo by me and, no, I'm not sure whether that's Mei Xiang or Tian Tian.

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