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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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Napolitano on Iraq

By Matthew Yglesias

May 23 2008, 5:38 PM ET Comment

Chris Bowers could convince me that Janet Napolitano is unacceptably hawkish on Iraq to be a VP nominee I could support, but I don't think linking to a fourteen month-old statement that "In my view, we got into this war without thinking through everything we should have, we should not get out of this war without thinking everything through" really fits the bill.

Yes, that's a lame wanky sentiment that I didn't agree with fourteen months ago, but it was fourteen months ago. I wouldn't want a vice president who would oppose withdrawal or who had some kind of record of chest-thumping rhetoric he or she couldn't walk away from, but that's not what this is. Chris also deems her insufficiently progressive on immigration, but she was a supporter of the comprehensive reform bill so I don't really see what the beef is here.

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