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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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Audacity

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 16 2008, 3:41 PM ET Comment

It seems that Mickey Kaus is hoping that "Obama's election will kill off much of hip-hop, at least the gangsta-inspired parts. But just killing off bling and gangsta fashion would be a start." Belle Waring has some doubts "Because after he becomes president he'll automatically become chair of the crucial monthly meetings at which black people decide what they're going to wear?"

I think the idea is that the highest-ranking African-American politician gets to appoint members to the Black Fashion Board. Kind of like the Federal Reserve or the Supreme Court, but for inner-city style.



Maybe Kaus could debate Mitt "Bling-Bling" Romney about this crucial issue.

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