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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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Hillary the Hawk

By Matthew Yglesias

Mar 4 2008, 3:14 PM ET Comment

Meanwhile, just as Barack Obama's more centrist economic advisors are telling people he wouldn't really withdraw from NAFTA, it seems that Hillary Clinton's more hawkish advisors are telling people she won't really withdraw from Iraq. It's hard to know what the truth is here. From 2002-2006 or so, Clinton went out of her way to cultivate an image as a hawk, forging relationships with the Michael O'Hanlons and Kenneth Pollacks of the world, hanging out at Peter Beinart's book party, getting herself labeled one of Jeffrey Goldberg's "national security Democrats," having Richard Holbrooke brag to reporters that "She is probably more assertive and willing to use force than her husband," and so forth.

More recently, she's talked a lot about ending cowboy diplomacy and ending the war in Iraq. If she becomes the nominee, will we start hearing again about how beating the drums of war with Iran is the way to shift into "general election mode, when she must guard against critics from the right"?

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