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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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Ugly American

By Matthew Yglesias

Sep 6 2007, 9:10 AM ET Comment

Brian Beutler recalls "Nancy Pelosi catching hell for the 'excessive' security detail she enjoys on her trips to and from California" and points out that it's nothing compared to what Bush and entourage took to Australia. Apparently, Air Force One plus two backup jumbo-jets wasn't enough, so they also brought two giant military transport planes to accommodate helicopters, a fleet of cars, etc., etc., etc. And this was for a trip to Australia, a small, rich, pleasant, friendly country. The possibility that this is just SOP for a presidential traveling party seems apparently, but Brian says at least one former Clinton aide he's spoken to says "that this sort of thing didn't happen when he worked at the White House."

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