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The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America

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By Nikesh Shukla (editor), Chimene Suleyman (editor) — 2025

From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of white supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. See more...

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The Case for Reparations

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

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The Case for Reparations: An Intellectual Autopsy

Four years ago, I opposed reparations. Here's the story of how my thinking has evolved since then.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates (a staffer for "The Atlantic" and author of a memoir, "The Beautiful Struggle") has become one of the most powerful writers today.

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“People Were Not Slaves, They Were Enslaved” | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Google Zeitgeist 2019

Editor-in-Chief of HuffPost Lydia Polgreen interviews journalist and novelist Ta-Nehisi Coates on the enduring legacy of slavery in the US.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations

“When I wrote ‘The Case for Reparations,’ my notion wasn’t that you could actually get reparations passed, even in my lifetime,” Coates says.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Full Opening Statement on Reparations at House Hearing

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates told lawmakers at a House committee hearing that the debate over reparations is “a dilemma of inheritance.”

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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Imagining a New America

Ta-Nehisi Coates says we must love our country the way we love our friends—and not spare the hard truths.

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Author Ta-Nehisi Coates Criticized Mitch McConnell for Saying Slavery’s Effects Were in the Past

Just one day after Mitch McConnell spoke out against reparations for slavery, author Ta-Nehisi Coates passionately argued in favor of them at a House hearing on the topic.

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Why Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Hopeful

The author of Between the World and Me on why this isn’t 1968, the Colin Kaepernick test, police abolition, nonviolence and the state, and more.

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Here’s What Ta-Nehisi Coates Told Congress About Reparations

The writer argued that African-Americans were exploited by nearly every American institution, before and after slavery ended.

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Immigration and Assimilation