... being Evan Bayh, again. Josh Marshall has it right. No one wants to hear a quitter dispensing advice on the perils of earmarks, and politicians actually executing the center-piece of their platform. I was never much bothered that Evan Bayh was a moderate. But there was always something empty about his moderation.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. 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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