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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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Maybe I Should Be More Trusting

By Matthew Yglesias

Feb 27 2008, 12:14 PM ET Comment

City Council member Phil Mendelson says he's concerned that DCPD detectives are carrying too many cases:

Police officials said that caseloads are manageable. Most detectives who work such crimes have about 10 cases at a time, they said, although some who work east of the Anacostia River have slightly higher caseloads. Those detectives tend to have more domestic violence cases, which are often easier to close, they said.


It couldn't possibly be that people who live east of the Anacostia River are much poorer and thus have less political clout and therefore enjoy inferior city serbices of all kinds, right?

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