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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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Fog of Growth

By Matthew Yglesias

Aug 10 2007, 8:50 AM ET Comment



James Fallows notes a minor glitch in the PRC's censorship efforts, as International Olympic Commission chief Jacques Rogge's statement that, in Jim's paraphrase,"the air in Beijing was so bad that some events (like, the ones where athletes have to breathe) might have to be postponed" slips through the cracks.

China's apparent inability to get the situation under control on a sustainable basis is going to lead them to try out some experiments in authoritarian environmental protection like "ordering half of Beijing's cars off the road for a few days, to see how much difference it makes in pollution" to see if that can take care of their Olympic problems.

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