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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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It Was All Good Just A Year Ago

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nov 9 2009, 2:00 PM ET Comment

David Plouffe talks to Terry Gross. It's interesting, and she pushes him as always. But, no disrespect to Plouffe, I find that listening to political operatives to be unrevealing. They're always selling. It's why I can't watch cable news. It's like watching two used car salesmen fight it out on MILF Island. How's that for mixed metaphors.



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