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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.

Davis / Ukraine Update

By Matthew Yglesias
Jun 20 2008, 11:41 AM ET Comment

When last we saw McCain campaign manager Rick Davis' ties to the pro-Kremlin party in Ukraine, campaign spokesman Brian Rogers told ABC News that "He was not involved in any work his firm did on Ukraine" even though at the time the firm was doing this work they were sharing office space with McCain's non-profit, the Reform Institute. Now along comes Seth Colter Walls reporting that:

That denial -- which shoots past the question of whether Davis merely worked with politicians in Ukraine to the point of denying any business activity in the country whatsoever -- is now being questioned by another American consultant who served as an adviser to a Ukrainian business group during 2004. This source, who requested anonymity from The Huffington Post in order to protect his business interests, said that Davis bragged to him in 2007 about the continuing profitability of real estate investments that he held in Ukraine.


An anonymous accusation isn't worth a huge amount necessarily, but "Multiple emails to top officials within the McCain campaign on Thursday asking about Davis's investments in Ukraine were not returned" so for now at least it seems like the McCain team may be looking to revise their earlier statements on this matter.

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