Dear New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker: Some days, you are really irritating. That’s because you insist on being a happy warrior in grumpy times. With that eternal, internal and, yes, 
infernal sunshine of yours, you are to the body politic as that 1-877-Kars4Kids ad would be to a man with
One felt debased by it all. One felt exhausted. And one had to wonder: When will this country ever, as a great man once put it, "rise up and live out the
During a contentious and maddening Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Sen. Cory Booker found a way to turn ugliness into light, to remind America of itself.
Senator, you did well. You found a way to turn ugliness into light, to remind America of itself. Small wonder Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wept. After days of this, years of this, a lifetime of this, she surely needed what you had to offer.