639. “This Country Kicks My Ass All the Time”
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Cory Booker on the politics of fear, the politics of hope, and how to split the difference.

• SOURCES:

• Cory Booker), senior United States Senator from New Jersey.

• RESOURCES:

• "'When Are More Americans Going to Speak Up?)'" by *The New Yorker Radio Hour *(2025).

• "Cory Booker’s Marathon Floor Speech)," (2025).

• "Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show)," by Georgia Wells, Jeff Horwitz, and Deepa Seetharaman (Wall Street Journal, 2021).

• "Tucked Into the Tax Bill, a Plan to Help Distressed America)," by Jim Tankersley (New York Times, 2018).

• United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good)*, *by Cory Booker (2017).

• "But What Did Cory Booker Actually Accomplish in Newark?)" by J.B. Wogan (Governing, 2013).

• EXTRAS:

• "Ten Myths About the U.S. Tax System)," by *Freakonomics Radio *(2025).

• "The United States of Cory Booker)," by *Freakonomics Radio *(2016).