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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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Most Expensive Cities

By Matthew Yglesias

Nov 1 2007, 8:39 AM ET Comment

The Mercer "cost of living index" shows the fifty most expensive cities in the world. US urban areas turn out to be pretty cheap — New York is number 15, Los Angeles is number 42, and there are no other American cities on the list. On the other hand, both NYC and LA got substantially cheaper over the previous twelve months, which I believe is an exchange rate phenomenon. Either way, a great nation such as ours ought to contain more super-expensive cities than does Japan, not fewer.

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