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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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Captain Amnesty

By Matthew Yglesias

Feb 7 2008, 5:22 PM ET Comment

Mark Krikorian argues:

As I point out in my piece on the homepage today, the open-borders cackling that Amnesty John's victory shows immigration to be politically irrelevant is wishful thinking.


Some might say that the prospects for an anti-immigrant movement that can't secure control over either political party aren't good, and that with the hispanic share of the electorate only growing the idea of the coming Age of Krikorian is wishful thinking. But more to the point, this "Amnesty John" business is no good. Let's stick with "Juan McCain" or, my personal favorite, "Captain Amnesty", which I'm especially drawn to because it reminds me of Anti-Flag's "Captain Anarchy". I keep trying to come up with McCain alternate lyrics for the song, but I don't have the chops for it.

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