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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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Missing NY Sports Media

By Matthew Yglesias

Dec 14 2007, 5:25 PM ET Comment

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The terrible New York Knicks and the awesomely feisty local media environment in New York City is truly a match made in heaven. It's mighty hard, after all, to imagine anything prompting this lede from a DC paper:

NO BULL, KNICKS CAN'T TAKE CHICAGO LIGHTLY
By MIKE PUMA
December 14, 2007 -- Isiah Thomas wears rose colored glasses to protect his eyes from permanent damage. As president and coach of this catastrophe, it's safer to stare into the sun and count to a thousand than watch the Knicks without those glasses.


Right on. People used to hearing about the Knicks being bad may be overlooking the fact that they're actually considerably worse this season. Last year, they were 17th in offense and 24th in defense (in efficiency terms). The year before that, they were 25th in offense and 26th in defense. This year they're 26th in offense -- a new low! But they're also dead last in defense -- another new low! In short, they're really, really, really terrible and there's essentially no end in sight.

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