Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias is an associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly. His first book, Heads in the Sand, a critical analysis of the Democratic Party's failure to produce a coherent alternative to the Bush foreign policy, will be published on April 25 by Wiley.
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.
