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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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The End of the Sound-bite

By Matthew Yglesias

Mar 19 2008, 4:22 PM ET Comment

Matt Compton argues that one of the things we're seeing with the success of Barack Obama's speech on race is the declining significance of the sound bite as we're now in a world where people can watch the whole thing on YouTube or read a complete transcript online.

That seems right to me, though it also seems like the demographic of older working class people who are the main audience that Obama needs to worry will be freaked out by Rev. Wright is also the demographic that's least likely to watch a long YouTube clip.

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