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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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Now All Restaurants Are Taco Bell

By Matthew Yglesias

Sep 27 2007, 12:23 PM ET Comment

More on the Demolition Man-ification of America, as Marc Ambinder picks up burgeoning support among Democratic presidential candidates for the sort of comprehensive bans on indoor smoking that we have in California, DC, New York, and many other blue areas.

Speaking personally, the idea of such a ban seemed like a terrible idea when I was a smoker. Then, in late 2006 with the 2 January 2007 implementation date (to let people finish off their New Year's Eve partying) looming, I decided I should take advantage of the legal switch to quit smoking. Now that I've been smoke-free for nearly ten months, I naturally wish to persecute smokers as vigorously possible with every legal tool available.

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