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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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Ben Cardin, Transit Hero

By Matthew Yglesias

Jul 1 2008, 12:26 PM ET Comment

Ben Cardin, Maryland's junior Senator, is emerging as one of our great transit advocates in the United States congress and he gives good interview to Grist's Kate Sheppard. It's great to see mid-Atlantic legislators like Cardin and Delaware's Carper repeatedly showing leadership on these topics. But what about DCCC honcho Rahm Emmannuel with his Chicago district, or his Senate counterpart Chuck Schumer of New York? In a country where most legislators don't represent transit-friendly areas, transit-friendly policy is always going to be a tough sell but I'm pretty sure it could be done (the total amount of money involved in realistic policy changes isn't that huge) if legislators who do represent such areas would all start pulling.

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