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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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Obama Foreign Policy Forum

By Matthew Yglesias

Nov 27 2007, 11:12 AM ET Comment

There's a live webcast happening right now featuring Barack Obama and several of his key advisors on national security and foreign policy issues. I'm going to start watching imminently.

UPDATE: I think he's basically making the right points. It's not good enough to just have "experience" -- Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld had tons of experience -- you want people with experience making good judgments, and Hillary Clinton doesn't have that record on Iraq, and her team is weighted toward people who made the same judgment that she did on Iraq.

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