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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.

Yglesias in the club throwing elbows

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Dec 3 2008, 11:00 AM ET Comment

...at Nate Silver:

I liked reading 538.com during the election season as much as anyone, and still think it's an insightful site with a lot of interesting things to say. That said, I've been kind of surprised by the post-election surge of praise for Nate Silver. You would think, based on some of the commentary, that his innovative and complicated formula wound up giving us some incredible insight we couldn't have gotten from anywhere else.
I call on Nate to do a YouTube and dis Matt. More blogger beef please.


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