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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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A Bit Confused

By Matthew Yglesias

Apr 2 2008, 1:11 PM ET Comment

Via Kieran Healy, the Pew Center finds some confusion among Obama haters, as "Nearly one-in-ten (9%) of those who heard a lot about Wright still believe that Obama is Muslim."

Of course in a world where a politician can repeatedly confuse Iran with al-Qaeda and be specifically lauded for his knowledge of national security issues, I'm not sure it's reasonable to expect people to know that Muslims don't have pastors.

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