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Matthew Yglesias - Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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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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Vetoing Boston

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 21 2007, 4:38 PM ET Comment

I found Boston to be a thoroughly unenjoyable place to live, but I'm not quite sure I understand why Kevin Garnett's unwilling to be traded there. The horrible, horrible Boston winters are, I believe, somewhat less horrible than the Minneapolis ones. What's more, I'm pretty sure Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and some guys you in a decent pickup game could be contenders in the East at this point. On the other hand, Chicago really, really, really seems like the team to be traded to, so maybe it's worth trying to veto all non-Chicago deals.

Speaking of which. The Bulls took a lot of crap for not acquiring Pau Gasol during the season thanks to their refusal to part with Luol Deng. If they wind up in a situation where both the Lakers and the Timberwolves are bidding against each other to put together a deal with Chicago, then the crap gets retracted, right?

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