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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.
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What did you think would happen?

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Aug 13 2008, 11:00 AM ET Comment

I really don't want to hear any complaining about Michael Mukasey. Democrats--specifically Chuck Schumer--rolled over for a guy whose language around waterboarding was beyond Orwellian. To, again, paraphrase Denny Green--he is who we thought he was.


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