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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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Slouching Toward Misery

By Matthew Yglesias

Oct 5 2007, 9:25 AM ET Comment

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Paul Krugman says that while it may not be all downhill for me from here on out, I am looking at a long, slow descent into unhappiness: "I always check out what’s new in National Bureau of Economic Research working papers, and a new one, 'Is Well-being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?', reports that among American men, happiness reaches a minimum at the age of 49, then rises." Krugman, 54, is cheered by the news but from the vantage point of 26 this is a pretty dire prediction.

And it gets worse. "The paper also shows that in the United States the well-being of successive birth-cohorts has gradually fallen through time," reports the abstract, "In Europe, newer birth-cohorts are happier."

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