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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.

Culture 11 and the War on Drugs

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jan 27 2009, 1:00 PM ET Comment

Here's David Freddoso for, and Radley Balko against. I think Balko's piece is pretty awesome, and much more substantive. Freddoso comes off better in the bloggingheads below, but I think Balko is just better informed on the topic. I think his federalist approach to legalizing drugs does a great job at moving this conversation out of the realm of abstraction and strawman, to a level of "what would this look like."



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