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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.

No Disclosure for You

By Matthew Yglesias
May 9 2008, 2:41 PM ET Comment

I missed the fact that a couple of days ago Cindy McCain reiterated that there would be no disclosure whatsoever of her tax returns, the very same returns on which all of her husband's wealth has been stashed as well in order to avoid disclosure. Personally, I'm happy with that outcome. Normally, you want to know about the finances of your would-be presidents. But John McCain has such a sterling reputation as a reformer, that I'm sure they're hiding all this not because they have anything to hide, but purely out of a principled concern for the privacy of their children.

Certainly, I see no reason for the press to keep dogging the McCains about this.

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