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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.

Boston's Worst Nightmare

By Matthew Yglesias
Apr 10 2008, 4:24 PM ET Comment

I don't think anything or anyone is going to stand in the way of the Celtics' march to the 2008 NBA Championship. Still, it warms this Boston-haters' heart to know that the thoroughly mediocre Wizards seem to have their number.

That said, I find that my distaste for the Hub is actually on the decline. It was very frustrating to me to constantly be hearing Kevin Garnett blamed for the Timberwolves' problems (he didn't have enough "leadership" it seems) when it was eminently clear that he was one of the top players in the game and just saddled with terrible teammates. This year, I think he's gotten his vindication and that's all to the good, even if it does bring cheer to the undeserving people of Massachusetts.

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