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<title><![CDATA[Ta-Nehisi Coates - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16491.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ta-Nehisi Coates]]></description><category domain="16491">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Did Harris&rsquo; Silence on Gaza Cost Her the White House?]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/SSLbJ</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with that question, and what it means for the 2028 election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Stand in Solidarity With Nikole Hannah-Jones]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theroot.com/we-stand-in-solidarity-with-nikole-hannah-jones-1846956586</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We, the undersigned, believe this country stands at a crucial moment that will define the democratic expression and exchange of ideas for our own and future generations. State institutions across the country are attempting to ban frank and rigorous conversation about our history in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Out. Can We Now Talk About How He Got In?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/01/ta-nehisi-coates-revisits-trump-first-white-president/617731/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The First White President, revisited]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Great Fire: Is an Anti-Racist Majority Emerging?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2020/08/ta-nehisi-coates-editor-letter</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whiteness thrives in darkness, Coates writes. So it was with the slave narrative. So it is with the cell phone.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cancellation of Colin Kaepernick]]></title>
							<link>https://trendingpress.com/ta-nehisi-coates-the-cancellation-of-colin-kaepernick/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We are being told of the evils of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'cancel culture,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' a new scourge that enforces purity, banishes dissent and squelches sober and reasoned debate. But cancel culture is not new.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Revisiting the Case for Reparations]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/ta-nehisi-coates-revisits-the-case-for-reparations</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Five years after his landmark article, the writer discusses what form reparations might take, and which Democratic candidates seem most serious about the issue.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kanye West Wants Freedom - White Freedom]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kanye west, a god in this time, awakened, recently, from a long public slumber to embrace Donald Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/colin-kaepernick/541845/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The idea here is that kneeling NFL players are committing an act of such blatant disrespect that they hand Trump an easy image with which to demagogue. Often attendant to the idea that protesting players are shooting themselves in the foot is the notion that in some other era, black...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Is the First White President]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[IT IS INSUFFICIENT'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' TO STATE'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'that bloody heirloom...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Give HBO's 'Confederate' the Benefit of the Doubt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/no-confederate/535512/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[HBO'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s prospective series'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Confederate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' will offer an alternative history of post-Civil War America. It will ask the question, according to co-creator David Benioff, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'What would the world have looked like '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';' if the South had won?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' A swirl of virtual protests and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[My President Was Black]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/my-president-was-black/508793/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the waning days of President Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s administration, he and his wife, Michelle, hosted a farewell party, the full import of which no one could then grasp. It was late October, Friday the 21st, and the president had spent many of the previous weeks, as he would spend the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton Is Right About Trump's Voters and Prejudice]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/basket-of-deplorables/499493/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week Matt Lauer was subject to withering criticism for his ineffectual interrogation of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. In a litany of complaints, one rose above all'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Lauer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s failure to challenge Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s mendacious claim that he opposed the Iraq War. That Trump was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Happened in Dallas Was Horrific, Yet Predictable]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/the-near-certainty-of-anti-police-violence/490541/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last month, the Obama administration accused Donald Trump of undercutting American legitimacy in the eyes of the world. Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s call to ban Muslims wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t just morally wrong, according to Vice President Joe Biden, it called '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'into question America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s status as the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Enduring Solidarity of Whiteness]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/why-we-write/459909/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There have been a number of useful entries in the weeks since Senator Bernie Sanders declared himself against reparations. Perhaps the most clarifying comes from Cedric Johnson in a piece entitled, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'An Open Letter To Ta-Nehisi Coates And The Liberals Who Love Him.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders &amp; the Liberal Imagination]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/bernie-sanders-liberal-imagination/425022/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week I critiqued Bernie Sanders for dismissing reparations specifically, and for offering up a series of moderate anti-racist solutions, in general. Some felt it was unfair to single out Sanders given that, on reparations, Sanders'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s chief opponent Hillary Clinton holds the same...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is Bernie Sanders Against Reparations?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/bernie-sanders-reparations/424602/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week Bernie Sanders was asked whether he was in favor of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'reparations for slavery.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' It is worth considering Sanders'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s response in full:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' No, I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t think so. First of all, its likelihood of getting through Congress is nil. Second of all, I think it would be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Paranoid Style of American Policing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/illegitimacy-and-american-policing/422094/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When I was around 10 years old, my father confronted a young man who was said to be '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'crazy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' The young man was always too quick to want to fight. A foul in a game of 21 was an insult to his honor. A cross word was cause for a duel, and you never knew what that cross word might...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/the-black-family-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration/403246/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By his own lights, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, ambassador, senator, sociologist, and itinerant American intellectual, was the product of a broken home and a pathological family. He was born in 1927 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but raised mostly in New York City. When Moynihan was 10 years old, his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Letter to My Son About Racism in U.S.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/tanehisi-coates-between-the-world-and-me/397619/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Son,Last Sunday the host of a popular news show asked me what it meant to lose my body. The host was broadcasting from Washington, D.C., and I was seated in a remote studio on the Far West Side of Manhattan.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What This Cruel War Was Over]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/what-this-cruel-war-was-over/396482/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This afternoon, in announcing her support for removing the Confederate flag from the capitol grounds, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley asserted that killer Dylann Roof had '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'a sick and twisted view of the flag'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' which did not reflect '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the people in our state who respect...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Take Down the Confederate Flag--Now]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/take-down-the-confederate-flag-now/396290/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/take-down-the-confederate-flag-now/396290/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last night, Dylann Roof walked into a Charleston church, sat for an hour, and then killed nine people. Roof'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s crime cannot be divorced from the ideology of white supremacy which long animated his state nor from its potent symbol'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the Confederate flag.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kalief Browder and Rachel Dolezal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/kalief-browder/395963/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/kalief-browder/395963/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I took some time this weekend to re-read Jennifer Gonnerman'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s piece on the odyssey of Kalief Browder. I wanted to understand how, precisely, it happened that a boy was snatched off the streets of New York, repeatedly beaten, and subjected to the torture of solitary confinement, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Clock Didn't Start With the Riots]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/ta-nehisi-coates-johns-hopkins-baltimore/391904/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/ta-nehisi-coates-johns-hopkins-baltimore/391904/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[About a year ago, I published '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Case for Reparations,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' which I thought in many ways was incomplete. It was about housing and how wealth is built in this country and why certain people have wealth and certain other people do not have wealth, and the manifold implications of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nonviolence as Compliance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/nonviolence-as-compliance/391640/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rioting broke out on Monday in Baltimore'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'an angry response to the death of Freddie Gray, a death my native city seems powerless to explain. Gray did not die mysteriously in some back alley but in the custody of the city's publicly appointed guardians of order. And yet the mayor of that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Myth of Police Reform]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-myth-of-police-reform/390057/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-myth-of-police-reform/390057/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a tendency, when examining police shootings, to focus on tactics at the expense of strategy. One interrogates the actions of the officer in the moment trying to discern their mind-state. We ask ourselves, "Were they justified in shooting?" But, in this time of heightened concern...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Gangsters of Ferguson]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/The-Gangsters-Of-Ferguson/386893/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the Justice Department released the results of a long and thorough investigation into the killing of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson. The investigation concluded that there was not enough evidence to prove a violation of federal law by Officer Wilson. The investigation...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Racism and Obama's Prayer Breakfast]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/02/the-foolish-historically-illiterate-incredible-response-to-obamas-prayer-breakfast-speech/385246/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/02/the-foolish-historically-illiterate-incredible-response-to-obamas-prayer-breakfast-speech/385246/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the NYPD Turned Its Back]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/why-the-nypd-turned-its-back-on-the-city/384196/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, a relatively large group of New York police officers, sworn to protect and serve the public, turned their back on the public's elected executive, Mayor Bill de Blasio:]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blue Lives Matter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/blue-lives-matter-nypd-shooting/383977/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The reactions to the murders of two New York police officers this weekend have been mostly uniform in their outrage. There was the predictable gamesmanship exhibited in some quarters, but all agree that the killing of Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos merits particular censure. This is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ferguson &amp; the Evidence of Things Unsaid]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/11/barack-obama-ferguson-and-the-evidence-of-things-unsaid/383212/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ta-Nehisi Coates</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a recent dispatch from Ferguson, Missouri, Jelani Cobb noted that President Obama's responses to "unpunished racial injustices" constitute "a genre unto themselves." Monday night, when Barack Obama stood before the nation to interpret the non-indictment of Darren Wilson for the...]]></description>
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