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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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Show Me The Vetos

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 20 2007, 11:44 AM ET Comment

I think John Judis is being a little too hard on Harry Reid insofar as the dynamic he's pointing to strikes me as 85 percent composed of Reid being hostage to events outside his control, but the basic point is still sound. What congressional Democrats need to be doing is coming up with bills that will secure near-universal Democratic support, plus pick up a few Republicans, and then garner a Bush veto. Instead, congress -- and the Senate in particular -- has gotten bogged down in issues that divide Democrats and don't really help the party position itself for 2008.

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