Ta-Nehisi Coates on Haley Stevens and a “Violent, Chauvinist Power”In a Vanity Fair opinion essay, Ta-Nehisi Coates argues that Haley Stevens's endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers, days after Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, ties her to an anti-Muslim culture war whose aim, he writes, is rendering Muslims and Arabs more killable — a war reaching its apogee, in his view, in Gaza.