Here is the latest open thread in history. Sorry they haven't been around. I've been running the last two weeks.
I'm kind of on a blogging rampage right now. Don't know how long I will go. There's a lot I've been wanting to say. I bet you feel the same. It's yours.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, We Were Eight Years in Power, and The Water Dancer.