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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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Getting Along

By Matthew Yglesias

Jan 18 2008, 11:46 AM ET Comment

If you dial the time machine back to April of 2006, Hillary Clinton was giving a speech at the Economic Club of Chicago back when she was burnishing her centrist credentials and expecting a primary challenge from the right from Mark Warner or Evan Bayh. Barack Obama was, at the time, a young and promising senator. And Clinton had a health care agenda, including a bill on health care information technology she did with Bill Frist and working with Newt Gingrich because "we actually agree that the private sector could demand much more accountability from the insurance industry and get it," and the punchline:

And I'm working with Senator Obama on his grand bargain bill offering American auto companies voluntary for retiree healthcare costs in exchange for their commitment to use the savings to build more fuel efficient cars.


That would be this plan which is now, I guess, a forgotten relic of the past.

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