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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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Governor Clinton

By Matthew Yglesias

Apr 2 2008, 2:12 PM ET Comment

Dana Goldstein and Jonathan Alter suggest that if David Patterson continues to flail, Hillary Clinton could make a run in 2010 to become governor of New York. Like Dana, I think she'd do a pretty good job in that role, and I also think I wouldn't mind having Andrew Cuomo's dreams trampled on. What's more, New York has had successes with such Clintons as Governor DeWitt Clinton in the past.

That saying, being a U.S. Senator with a safe seat is a pretty good job and actually provides an excellent platform from which for Clinton to muck around in the thorny details of policy and political negotiations. What's more, unlike most Senators, she has a celebrity status that grants her instant ability to draw attention to whatever issue she wants to draw attention to. So I'm not really sure why she would want a new gig unless she thought it put her on a clear path to the White House.

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