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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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Judges May Be Less Liberal Than They Appear

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

May 29 2009, 1:39 PM ET Comment

Emily Bazelon over at Slate has the goods on a Sotomayor case that those of us with a concern about the cops and civil liberties will find disturbing. I'm mostly interested in a point that's received scant attention in something Emily raises, which I havent seen explored much by the press--How Sotomayor's time as a prosecutor shaped her thinking:


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