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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.

Sebelius

By Matthew Yglesias
Jan 28 2008, 10:20 PM ET Comment

This is bad. On the other hand, SOTU responses are always bad. On an appropriate curve, I think she's doing pretty well. But on another level, it's just an impossible task; I think a sensible person would refuse to do it. In policy terms, I basically agree -- S-CHIP good, global warming bad, etc., etc.

UPDATE: As many people are reminding me both in comments and IRL, Jim Webb gave a good response last year. Sebelius is, at any rate, better than such fiascos as Tim Kaine 2006 and Gary Locke 2003.

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