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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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Selling Phoenix

By Matthew Yglesias

Jul 21 2007, 3:37 PM ET Comment



I understand that the NBA is a business and that in the business world, business is business, but what's happening to the Phoenix Suns is pretty maddening. The Suns are giving away their first round draft picks in 2008 and 2010 as a sweetener to get the Seattle Supersonics to take Kurt Thomas -- a legitimate rotation player -- off their hands in exchange for nothing. The draft-related cost cutting thus far hasn't been so bad, but even though Thomas is hardly the league's best player, it's very difficult to see how to square ditching the guy you use to guard Tim Duncan (or Yao Ming!) with a good-faith effort to win a championship.

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