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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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By Matthew Yglesias

Jan 28 2008, 9:14 PM ET Comment

It's good to see Bush talking about taxes again and busting out some classic dishonesty. Back when he initially passed his tax cuts, he argued they were "affordable" and cited what they would cost if we assumed they would phase out. Today he's outraged by the idea of letting the taxes phase out. Meanwhile, we're back to talking about the "average" tax cut, which is pretty large, in much the same sense that if you take me, Bill Gates, and a homeless guy the "average" one of us is a billionaire.

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