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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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By Matthew Yglesias

Sep 18 2007, 8:30 AM ET Comment

Once upon a time, whilst indulging a youthful taste for overstatement, I tried to maintain that if you paid Ron Brownstein to leave the LA Times and start a reported blog instead, that you'd destroy about 50 percent of the Times' value as a news source. That may have been going to far, and I don't think he's going to be writing a blog, but I introduce this idea by way of noting that I'm pretty psyched that Brownstein's going to be joining the Atlantic Media Company mini-empire as political director.

Meanwhile, in other corporate news, the National Journal Political Stock Exchange is now up and running. I'm not totally sure I understand why "prediction markets" aren't the same as illegal gambling (I'm "predicting" that the roulette wheel will land on a red square, right?) but they're pretty fun to watch.

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