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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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Mikki's Millions

By Matthew Yglesias

Jul 16 2007, 12:01 PM ET Comment

It seems that the Sacramento Kings want to pay $18 million over three years for the services of Mikki Moore, based on his breakout season lats year. The trouble, as Dave Berri points out, is that there was no breakout -- he just played more minutes, and had essentially the same per minute production.

His scoring efficiency was up a bit from his career average, but his rebounding was down a bit. Overall, it was an above average year, but not enormously above average, and the dude's 31 so it's not as if these were flashes of promise likely to be built on in the future.

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