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Ta-Nehisi Coates
Author of 'Between the World and Me' and 'The Case for Reparations,' a national correspondent at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2018. Announced as a Vanity Fair senior staff writer in November 2025.
Slant Score · ranked #67 of 175 from most left to most right
9 Center
100 LeftCenter100 Right
Thin record: fewer than a handful of documented items, so this score is pulled toward the center and could move a lot as evidence is added.
The receipts (2)
Broke with own side · served the right · +1.4 R · Jun 20, 2019
'Joe Biden Shouldn't Be President'
Democracy Now! interview, headlined that Biden shouldn't be president, followed Biden's remarks about working with segregationist senators.
Source: Democracy Now! →Partisan opinion role · served the left · +2.5 L · Jan 1, 2017
Progressive essayist; wrote 'My President Was Black'
Wikipedia describes Coates as politically progressive; his Atlantic essays include 'My President Was Black' on the Obama years.
Source: The Atlantic →