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Who is Sherrod Brown?

An unabashed progressive takes aim at a Senate seat in Ohio

By Christopher Hayes

There are two small but revealing items affixed to Ohio’s 13th District congressman Sherrod Brown. On his lapel, he wears not an American flag, but a pin of a yellow bird in a cage. On a Thursday morning in October, as we leave his office to walk to the Capitol for a committee meeting, Brown hands me a bookmark-sized slip… return to article

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