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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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A Dream Deferred

By Matthew Yglesias

Jul 16 2007, 2:10 PM ET Comment



It seems that my aspirations to handgun ownership are going to need to wait a little while, as DC Mayor Adrian Fenty announced his decision to appeal to the Supreme Court to overrule a lower court ruling that deemed the city's ban on handgun ownsership unconstitutional. Cato's Tim Lynch disappoints by deeming this "great news" since "the whole idea of this lawsuit has been to get a good case up to the Supreme Court."

I, on the other hand, actually live here and would have been happy just to see the law amended.

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