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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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New Jobs

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 16 2008, 1:19 PM ET Comment

Obama campaign announces a bunch of new senior hires for the general election:

  • Constituency Director: Brian Bond – formerly LGBT Outreach Director at the DNC
  • National Field Director: Jon Carson – formerly Obama for America Voter Contact Director
  • Senior Advisor to the Campaign and Chief of Staff to Michelle Obama: Stephanie Cutter
  • Industrial States Regional Director: Paul Diogardi – formerly Political Director for the Democratic Governor’s Association.
  • Battleground States Director: Jen O’Malley Dillon – formerly Iowa State Director for John Edwards for President
  • Chief of Staff to the Vice Presidential Nominee: Patti Solis Doyle
  • Latino Vote Director: Temo Figueroa – formerly Obama for America National Field Director
  • First Americans Vote Director: Wizipan Garriott
  • Northeast Regtional Director: Eureka Gilkey – formerly Obama for America Deputy Political Director
  • 50-State Voter Registration Director: Jason Green – formerly Obama for America political and field staff
  • Campaign Chief of Staff: Jim Messina – formerly Chief of Staff to Senator Max Baucus
  • LGBT Vote Director: Dave Noble – formerly of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
  • West Regional Director: Matt Rodriguez –.formerly Obama for America New Hampshire State Director
  • Senior Advisor: Michael Strautmanis
  • African American Vote Director: Rick Wade


Patti Solis Doyle, former campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, as the chief of staff-designate for the vice presidential nominee seems like a noteworthy pick. Stephanie Cutter was a key spokesperson for John Kerry's campaign and before that was Communications Director for Ted Kennedy, so that's a pretty high-powered choice to work with Michele Obama.

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