Ta-Nehisi Coates, JD Vance and the casualties and causalities of fact-checking
When the burden of fact-checking falls upon readers, not authors or editors, accuracy and truth are the victims
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Coates' 'The Message' warns against the dangers of mythologizing our past
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The history of conquest and oppression in the Holy Land is infinitely more complicated than it is in the US
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‘It does not mean that you don’t vote for Kamala’ he tells Peter Beinart
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