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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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MLK Had to Go

By Matthew Yglesias

Dec 13 2007, 10:42 AM ET Comment

I was eavesdropping on a conversation between two African American men at the local coffee shop regarding Martin Luther King, Jr. and one observed "Once he started speaking out against the Vietnam War, he had to go." The other agreed: "he had to go." I hear this theory every now and again (see, e.g., Rage Against the Machine "You know they went after King / When he spoke out on Vietnam /He turned the power to the have-nots / And then came the shot") and wonder how prevalent it is. Given the history of racist violence in the United States, the "cover story" that he was assassinated by a white supremacist seems pretty plausible.

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