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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.

Thursday General Election Blogging

By Matthew Yglesias
Apr 17 2008, 11:43 AM ET Comment

Some liberal bloggers are know are tired of the endless primary campaign, which they view as tedious. What they're not considering is that the general election will be much more tedious. All I really have to say about it is that John McCain is a foreign policy hawk and I'm not, I'm a cultural liberal and John McCain isn't, I believe in higher taxes and more generous services and John McCain doesn't.

That one sentence fully explains the case for voting for the Democratic Party's nominee, and yet the campaign will be a huge news story for months and months and all political bloggers everywhere will be required to come up with dozens of new opinions about it every month even though at the end of the day my anti-McCain argument is very, very simple and not very interesting.

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