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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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Impressed

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sep 16 2009, 9:19 AM ET Comment

I generally think admonishing Joe Wilson is a distraction and a waste, but I was really  impressed by Donna Edwards. Progressives love her, but I've never heard her interviewed. Chris Matthews has this clever jujitsu move he uses in which employs the politicians instinct to equivocate against him. He asks the politician to answer a hard question, and when the pol tries to shift out Matthews hammers him, making clear to the public that the person is refusing to answer. Edwards generally avoided that, and stayed on ground that she could defend.



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