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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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Polling Iran

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 5 2008, 10:31 AM ET Comment

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We've seen in earlier polling that the public has no problem with Barack Obama's idea of high-level meetings with the leaders of "bad guy" nations. Now comes along this set of polling from Public Agenda (via David Shorr) that likewise shows specific support for a liberal approach to Iran -- diplomacy aimed at improving relations between Washington and Teheran is by far the most popular option, and it's popularity has only grown.

Lurking elsewhere in the polling, a strong 65 percent correctly say that it's not realistic to expect the government to be able to deliver cheap oil. At the same time, this poll and every other poll I've seen shows that people view the high cost of energy as a major problem in their lives. It's almost as if the public might be drawn to a serious proposal to develop alternatives to massive oil consumption.

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