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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).
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