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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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How to Succeed in the Lottery Business

By Matthew Yglesias

Oct 21 2007, 7:21 PM ET Comment

The New York Times takes a look at the major corporate players in the state lottery game. The key to doing well in this business seems to be bribing state lottery officials. Getting caught doesn't even seem to be a big problem.

If we're going to have lotteries at all (I have mixed feelings about this) doesn't it seem like we really, really, really shouldn't make them state-licensed monopolies? After all, I imagine that if you had a whole bunch of different competing lottery firms they might need to start offering somewhat better odds in order to keep their customers.

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