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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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Miami's Shaq Problem

By Matthew Yglesias

Nov 8 2007, 11:00 AM ET Comment



As John Hollinger points out, it's not just that Diesel's playing badly right now, it's that even if he gets back into shape and improves Miami needs him to be outstanding in a way he probably can't be anymore at his age: "But the Heat's championship hopes depend on Shaq being more than a 'nice' player. He's taking up $20 million a year on a team that refuses to pay luxury tax, so he pretty much needs to be a superstar. Those days appear long gone. Even if Shaq matches his second half numbers from last season, he's a borderline All-Star at best."

What's more, his contract goes through the 2009-2010 season when Miami will also apparently be paying Mark Blount $8 million so I think Dwayne Wade is probably looking at being out of contention for some time.

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