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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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By Request: Biofuels We Can Believe In?

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 24 2008, 10:57 AM ET Comment

John requests comment on "Barack Obama's support for corn ethanol subsidies and tariffs on the more energy-efficient Brazilian sugarcane stuff, please." There was a good New York Times article on this yesteday and Obama turns out to be sort of worse than I'd thought -- not just shuffling along the Midwestern party line but really in tight with a bunch of corn ethanol people.

The problems with corn ethanol are pretty well-rehearsed at this point, and obviously anyone trying to block the importation of foreign ethanol isn't actually serious about this topic as an alternative fuel and is just trying to hand out yet more money to Big Corn. I'm not sure how much the president's attitude toward this issue really matters, but if Obama wins let's hope it doesn't matter too much.

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