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Matthew Yglesias - Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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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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The Case Against Mukasey

By Matthew Yglesias

Oct 26 2007, 3:40 PM ET Comment

Scott Lemieux makes it. Suffice it to say that torture plays a role. I would add that there are issues here beyond the merely pragmatic one of whether or not Mukasey is really worse than the current Acting AG. For Senators to elicit sworn testimony on the subject of waterboarding, hear the nominee refuse to call it torture, and then confirm him nonetheless would be to give a senatorial imprimateur to the notion. Actually blocking his confirmation seems both futile and unlikely to accomplish anything, but I don't see how any decent person could vote "yes" in good conscience.

In related news, read Dahlia Lithwick and Lithwick with Phil Carter on this business.

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