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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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Davis and Russia

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 14 2008, 8:29 AM ET Comment

It seems that McCain campaign manager Rick Davis was working for Kremlim-backed Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich and this is embarrassing to McCain on various levels. Certainly that's pretty sleazy work to be doing, but on some level it'd be a little reassuring to me for McCain to have a Putin crony or two hanging around since McCain's tendency is to err far, far, far on the other side.

On the other hand, Moira Whelan calls it "interesting" that "Davis never filed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act that he did work for Yanukovich and today denied he ever did it." Given that context, there's surely going to be some more efforts to smoke out whether Davis is lying or not, whether he broke the law, etc.

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