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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.

The thing about Bill Kristol...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Aug 25 2008, 11:00 AM ET Comment

...isn't that he's a conservative, it's that he's that he's insincere. As Andrew alludes to in his post, Kristol's take on Biden really could have been a press release right out of the RNC's offices. Look I'm a liberal, but the only thing I look forward to more than Barack Obama winning, is gadflying him after he wins. It's one thing to be a conservative writer, with the sort of take on the world that liberals simply don't agree with. It's another thing to basically make a career as the RNC's house organ, under the guise of "journalism." Kristol may be the only case I've ever seen of the press trying to spin the press.


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