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Matthew Yglesias - Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
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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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Trade Time

By Matthew Yglesias

Feb 21 2008, 4:41 PM ET Comment

This Houston-Hornets-Grizzlies trade seems remarkably pointless. None of the players involved are any good, and what does New Orleans want with a point guard? Meanwhile, the huge Cleveland-Seattle-Chicago three-way is a bit confusing as well. Wally Sczerbiak's three point shooting would be a very effective weapon alongside LeBron James, but they play the same position. Still, all things considered this deal seems helpful to Cleveland.

Meanwhile it's pathetic that given the assets Chicago at one point seemed to have lined up to acquire Kevin Garnett or Pau Gasol or Kobe Bryant that they're instead picking up Larry Hughes and Drew Gooden. Don't miss Josh Levin on how crazy NBA trades have gotten thanks to the intricacies of the salary cap.

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