A Man Apart (On Bernie Sanders)

News: Maverick, "socialist," political aberration, Bernie Sanders makes the run of his life.

By Michael Scherer

June 23, 2005

Only one Congressman hangs an engraved portrait of Eugene Debs, the Socialist Party’s candidate for president in 1920, at the entrance to his Capitol Hill office. And no other House member can boast of performing in Brechtian puppet pageants with a Marxist acting troop in his native Northeast Kingdom. But then Rep. Bernie Sanders has always been a man apart.