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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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Starbucks's Second Wave

By Matthew Yglesias

Jul 5 2008, 1:14 PM ET Comment

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I saw this album on sale at Starbucks yesterday and damn if I wasn't tempted to buy it. At the end of the day, the inherent ickiness of buying an album at Starbucks wasn't even the tipping point -- I just haven't bought a physical CD in years and it seems too late in history to start doing it again. In particular, buying a physical compilation CD just doesn't really make sense -- I have a lot of these songs already and could assemble the playlist easily enough by just buying a few additional tracks.

Ackerman, lost in his archives, remarked that "the Germans must have a word for the heartbreak you experience when you see that some of your favorite music is on sale at Starbucks."

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