The truth is rarely pure and never simple. – Oscar Wilde Ta Nehisi Coates is both a darling of the country's Black intelligentsia (John McWhorter being a notable exception) and America's cultural ...

The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Ezra Klein to discuss how the left should think about the work of politics and persuasion in this moment. This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra ...

As the war on Gaza spans a second year, we continue our conversation with the acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. His new book, The Message, is based in part on his visit last year to Israel and the ...

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. In this holiday special, we spend the rest of the hour with the acclaimed writer and journalist ...