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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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More Congressmen?

By Matthew Yglesias

Mar 21 2008, 8:43 AM ET Comment

Democracy did a thing where they asked a bunch of people to write a short piece about a "big idea" of theirs. There's some good ones in there, but I thought the most intriguing one was Larry Sabato's out-of-left-field idea of expanding the House of Representatives to include maybe 1,000 members.

Sabato points out that smaller districts would be cheaper to run in, making it easier for grassroots challengers to have a shot at unseating incumbents. This seems plausible enough to me, though of course constitution reform is, in practice, impossible to do.

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