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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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No Fixed Address

By Matthew Yglesias

Jan 11 2008, 3:35 PM ET Comment

In local news, Washington DC is abuzz with a horrifying case in which police found a woman living with the skeletal remains of her four children, apparently killed by their mother who explains they were possessed by demons. Mayor Adrian Fenty revealed today that the city's social services agencies had been looking into intervening on behalf of the children when a nurse reported that the family was living in a van and one or both parents had substance abuse problems. At this point they decided to close the interview because . . . the family had no fixed address. Because that, of course, is always great news.

It's just terrible stuff; in a country with as many resources as this one, we really ought to be able to stop kids from falling through the crack like this. A banal sentiment, yes, but it's true nevertheless.

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