MA to MN

Jeremy Gantz September 3, 2008

Am I just a crazy Massachusetts native, or does Senator Norm Coleman have JFK's Boston brahmin brogue?

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Jeremy Gantz is an In These Times contributing editor working at Time magazine.

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