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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.

And so it's official

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Nov 21 2008, 4:17 PM ET Comment

She accepts. I'm nowhere near qualified to tell you what all this means. But Spencer is:

During the Democratic primaries, the Clinton campaign attracted more familiar Democratic faces from the foreign-policy community -- the people derided by the liberal blogosphere as self-styled Very Serious People -- who tended to be less progressive than their counterparts in the Obama campaign. The foreign-policy wing of the Obama campaign, during the primaries, considered itself as a force for redressing the timidity of the traditional Democratic foreign-policy community that acquiesced to disasters like the Iraq war.
Uhm, does this mean no return for Samantha Power? Damn, I'm a ditz. A 6'4 big black ditz...



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