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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.

McCain's abortion kabuki

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Aug 29 2008, 1:28 PM ET Comment

Here's another thing McCain just lost--any veneer of being a "moderate" on abortion. Did we mention that Palin is not simply pro-life, but pro-life in all cases except the life/death of the mother. In other words, in cases of rape and incest, Palin believes the government should force women to go through with the pregnancy. I think it will be very clear where these guys stand from here on out. And I think it's more of us than there are of them.

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