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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.

Campbell Brown catches wreck

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Sep 2 2008, 10:00 AM ET Comment

Not that it was hard--Tucker Bounds had almost nothing to work with. I am seriously wondering whether this charade can actually endure through the primaries campaign. Moments like these, you see the intrinsic value of Obama's "no drama" approach to campaigns.





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