Season two of Homeland is set about six months after the events of the first season finale with Brody a newly-minted Congressman for Virginia and Carrie, now an ESL teacher, working with the CIA in Lebanon.
The passing of former Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke III, at age 95, gave obituary writers and political commentators a rare opportunityâperhaps one of the lastâto put together the words âliberal Republican.â
1 Former Massachusetts Republican Sen. Edward Brooke died Saturday at the age of 95. 2  He was the first black Republican senator elected to office since Reconstruction.  Leaders from both parties -- including the President -- mourn his death and praised his work in the legislative body.