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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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Primaries

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 11 2008, 12:30 AM ET Comment

Looks like Chellie Pingree wins the primary in ME-1 and Gerald Connolly wins the primary in VA-11. Both Democratic nominees shouldn't have much trouble winning in November. Pingree's clearly the right choice over her main rival, and I have mixed feelings about the result in Virginia. Connolly's rival was generally more progressive, but Connolly had better ideas on transportation and planning and since Connolly will wind up having influence over the region in which I live I'm not too heartbroken to see him prevail.

Ultimately, though, it seems to me that these races usually come down to local or candidate-specific factors in the end and thus wind up disappointing ideologues and political junkies who like to see broad national controversies play out.

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