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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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La Bomba

By Matthew Yglesias

Jul 5 2007, 8:19 AM ET Comment

Not only is Spanish guard Juan Carlos Navarro leaving Winterthur FC Barcelona to join the Washington Wizards, but he seems to have a well-entrenched nickname in Spain "Bomba Navarro," as seen on his official website, BombaNavarro.com, available in both Catalan and Castellano dialects (no English, sorry).

The inefficiency of the NBA personnel market is always a marvel to behold. The three point specialist is a type whose value varies substantially from situation to situation and while if Navarro works out that'll of course be good for DC, you'd hardly put the Wizards on the list of the top five teams who could really use a three point specialist. Someplace like Cleveland, Houston, or Utah (where they always seem to be on the lookout for white guys in general) would make a lot more sense.

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