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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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Going Green (Line)

By Matthew Yglesias

Dec 7 2007, 10:26 AM ET Comment

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Rob Goodspeed posts several charts regarding Metro ridership here in the Washington DC area. This one illustrates the growth in ridership at the relatively new Green Line stations around where I live. The steady growth is impressive and tends to illustrate the point that if you build it, they will come; especially if you build it properly, which is what's happened here. The way Columbia Heights' ridership started out slightly lower than Petworth's but is now rocketing ahead also shows the virtues of allowing intensive development, something I'd like too see even more of in that area where right now it's basically restricted (by law, not by lack of demand) to 14th Street.

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