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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's beef...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Dec 29 2008, 11:00 AM ET Comment

Yglesias points us to Peretz chest-thumping analysis of  Gaza:

Message: do not fuck with the Jews.
Trash-talking from across an ocean. That'll show em Marty. It's wrong but I've almost--almost--stopped reading about anything dealing with the Israel-Palestinian beef. It just feels like nothing changes. I've never understood why anyone in their right mind would accept us as an honest broker, given our declared allegiances. But more than that, I wonder why it's incumbent on us to broker at all. Lately, our judgment hasn't exactly been the greatest either.


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