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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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Tuesday Fast Food Blogging

By Matthew Yglesias

Jun 10 2008, 1:41 PM ET Comment

Ross posts a classic ad, with Jason Alexander pitching McDonalds' McDLT. To the modern environmentally conscious consumer, the styrofoam packaging may be a bit shocking:



This comes via Vic Matus who commenting on McDonald's announcement that it's going tomato-free says "Hold on a second. There were tomatoes at McDonald’s? I think the last time I had a tomato at McDonald’s was when I ordered a McDLT." The "premium" chicken sandwiches (Premium Grilled Chicken, Premium Grilled Chicken Club, Premium Crispy Chicken, and Premium Crispy Chicken Club) are all normally served with tomato. What's more, a sandwich identical to the McDLT is still served under the name Big 'N Tasty.

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