Denver author Harry MacLean's new book, The Past Is Never Dead, is marketed as true crime and it is that, but it's much more. His story about the 2007 trial of klansman James Ford Seale for the hideous murder of two young black men in 1964 is also a story...

I don't speak Parseltongue. I've had a hard time understanding the slithering talk-show hosts, the snake-oil salesmen of the wing-nut right and the Death Eaters at various town meetings. Sadly, we've already given up on universal health care and now it appears we may also lose the public option. So...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gen-wesley-clark/change-has-come-to-americ_b_141765.html

On November 3, 2004, my friend, Elliot Quick, then a student at Brown, posted a sign on his door: "Go to your room America and think about what you did."

Apparently we did.

On the day after the election this year,...

Hot Flashes From The Campaign Trail: But really, it's my son Nicholas Brown

Two point five million. Now let's put it upside down with exclamation marks around it because nobody does emphasis like the Spanish: ¡TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND VOTES! That's the mark Rock the Vote broke this last...

Two bright spots:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/his-choice_ad/

The following was reported on NPR yesterday:
A factory training supervisor in rural Missouri said, "Rosa Sat so Martin could Walk; Martin Walked so Barack could Run; Barack is running so children can FLY".

It's got to end soon. My behavior is disintegrating. I cry at the mention of wolves and polar bears. I burst into tears at the crowds of unemployed men in front of Home Depot hoping to pick up work. I'm drinking too much. I grab food from other people's plates,...

Hot Flashes From The Campaign Trail

It's gotten frantic and treacherous out there. The debates are over but the campaign goes on and on... and on. We need it to be over, but there's still so much to be done. And will it even be over when it's over? As...

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What could feel more like finding the Holy Grail than taking back Dick Cheney's seat in Wyoming?

Gary Trauner was sipping red wine in 8 Rivers, a new Caribbean restaurant in Denver, dressed in his standard cowboy boots, jeans, blue shirt and...

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From my son Nicholas Brown who is traveling with and writing for Rock The Vote Tuesday, October 14th, 2008:

Young voters registered yesterday - 13,569
Miles traveled today - 378
8:04 p.m. CDT - Between Minneapolis and Omaha...

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http://themitchellreport.typepad.com
http://www.ohiodems.org/site/apps/ninet/content2.aspx?c=mhLRKZPCLmF&b=3673981&ct=6037145
http://cincinnati.blogspot.com/2008/09/same-day-voting-update.html
http://hotflashesfromthecampaigntrail.com

Here are some excerpts from our son Nicholas Brown's blogs from the Rock The Vote bus as it travels around Ohio. The number of younger voters registered through activities of Rock The...

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http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/39179-mccain-s-youtube-problem-just-became-a-nightmare
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/

I've been sick in bed with nasty bronchitis for five days. So, I have watched about 50 hours of day-time television, including many hours of Fox News and probably five or six hours of political attack ads. No kidding....

Despite a Herculean effort on Senator Biden's part, I'm sorry to announce that the end result of the vice presidential debate is the demise of the letter "G".

"I've got the greatest respect for its past service," said Ms. Palin, "but gol darn it, the pesky lil...

Unless Sara Palin wets her pants on stage tonight, she'll be declared the winner. And even then, she'll win over the Depend vote. She'll be charming, "feisty", and anecdotally folksy. I hope Biden will come out swinging and allow for none of it. Attack the ticket from the top, uncover...

"Truth. It will set you free. But first it will piss you off." Bumper strip in Berkeley.

We've been in Oakland and Berkeley for a series of fundraisers this past week. For fundraising, this is low hanging fruit country. The average zip code in America gives $41,000 total to all...

Two of our three children, Nicholas and Willa, are working full time for Rock The Vote through the election. To be fair, our other child, Teal, is the only one of the five of us who has a real, full-time job, so we all need her where she is.

The...

The following is an explanation of our financial crisis from my old friend (in fact even a year older this very week), Danny Menaker, former Editor in Chief of the Random House Publishing Group. Let me state right up front that if, in fact, any of you send him money,...

The Obama campaign is unlike any other I've been in involved in. It really is a grass roots campaign. In all our years in politics, my husband and I have never seen a ground campaign like this one. I am reminded of the movie Butch Cassidy and the...

Central and northern Minnesota is so flat it's almost concave. I grew up in Nebraska, so I know flat. It's not surprising that someone dreamed up the notion that the lakes up north are puddles created by Paul Bunyan's footsteps. I was musing on this flatness as I sat checking...

It looks to me like the Republicans are doing their best to follow the Arab world -- breezily rejecting science, embracing fundamentalist religion, and glorifying self-absorption. COUNTRY FIRST! We'll ruin the rest of the world later. Teach your kids it is weak and wrong to care about anything but America....

It's over. Or, maybe it's not over. I'm not sure what I think of the Hillary issue. Up until yesterday, I felt doom and despair. On Sunday at the Harvard/Shorenstein Media event with all the Sunday morning talk show hosts, I would have said we'd lost it because of the...