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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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By Request: McContradictions

By Matthew Yglesias

Jul 11 2008, 11:42 AM ET Comment

Taricha asks "How long will McCain be able to keep up the balancing act of telling fiscal conservatives/economic & tax experts privately that he doesn't support the things he talks about publicly?" My guess is a very long time. The general quality of campaign coverage is very low, the press likes being kind to John McCain, and the press also likes being kind to the candidate who's losing so expect very little scrutiny here.

What's more, the pixie dust that makes this "all things to all people" magic work is the reality that President McCain is going to be facing expanded Democratic majorities in 2009 so people assume that McCain's campaign pledges are quasi-meaningless and that all this stuff would be reopened once he has to sit down with Reid & Pelosi.

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