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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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California Referendum

By Matthew Yglesias

Aug 30 2007, 12:13 AM ET Comment

I posted a while back about the California GOP's plan to basically sneak under the radar screen a ballot initiative that would have the state adopt a Maine-style system for apportioning electoral votes where the winner of each congressional district gets one vote. Adopted nationwide this might be a step in the right direction, but adopted only in California it's just a sweetheart deal for Republicans.

At any rate, after I posted on it various Californians piped up pretty confident that there's nothing to worry about. But Barbara Boxer was apparently worried about it enough to spend some time on a conference call with various bloggers that I participated in, so I'm raising the threat level to orange. Here's a website dedicated to counter-organizing against this scam, and here's the website for National Popular Vote a group moving toward real election reform.

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