Booker has a massive lead in the race to replace the late Frank Lautenberg, which helps explain why Republicans are so made at Chris Christie.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has set the special election to replace Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died on Monday, for October. The primary will be in August. So we now have a little window into how Christie's making his calculations — and getting the love of New Jersey voters is pretty clearly his priority over the love of conservative presidential primary voters.
We learned today that Oprah would be speaking at Harvard's commencement. Let's look at some of the most intriguing and most WTF options for 2013 commencement speakers.
Lindsey Graham and John McCain seem ready to move on from the whole Chuck Hagel debacle; Rand Paul and Paul Ryan talk about the potential of their respective 2016 runs; and there's some chatter over the President's leaked immigration plan.
Frank Lautenberg's official withdrawal from a re-election bid signals the end of a bizarre proxy feud between the 89-year-old Senator and the Newark mayor, who jumped into the race two months ago — boldly, as usual.
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Has Newark Mayor Cory Booker, and the Superman myth his frequently-updated Twitter feed generates, finally jumped the shark?
Newark superhero mayor (and tweeter) Cory Booker has a solid track record of intervening in crisis situations, but he proved last night that, with a little help from social media, he's not above looking out for the little non-people either.
Colin Powell tells David Gregory why he thinks Hagel should be confirmed for Secretary of State, what he thinks of problems within the GOP, then gives a vague endorsement for gun reform. Elsewhere on the Sunday shows: Cory Booker dodges confirming a Senate run and more Hagel talk.
The Newark mayor came under heavy, anonymous fire just hours after he filed paperwork to run in 2014 for New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg's seat — a seat he publicly committed to taking... even though Lautenberg hasn't given it up yet.
Speculation had been brewing for weeks, and a report surfaced earlier in the morning that Booker would tweet his intentions, and then came the tweet to the popular (if controversial) mayor's 1.3 million followers late in the morning.
The Newark mayor might have to buy a website for that not-so-secret Senate run he hasn't announced yet from one of his top advisors. Or maybe they could work out a deal, because the advisor has owned the domain name since 2010.
Booker's response this week to a recent New York Times profile isn't that unusual: he's pushed back, just as hard, against other, equally unflattering media portrayals of himself and his city.
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The Internet's been buzzing lately with speculation that Newark Mayor Cory Booker will challenge Chris Christie in next year's governor's race or make a bid for a Senate seat opening in 2014.
IMF head Christine Lagarde thinks this fiscal cliff thing is a pretty big deal; Tom Coburn thinks the Republicans should just give up already and let tax rates go up for the rich.
Police had to resort to pepper-spray after a procedural move by Mayor Cory Booker caused angry citizens to storm the stage in protest—and should cause tremors in a possible fight against Chris Christie.
Matt Katz on Booker vs. Christie, Robert Kagan on Susan Rice, Daniel Akst on paper, Daniel Altman on inequality, and Peter Beinart on Israel.
Today, Adam Martin took a look at Newark Mayor Cory Booker's future policial ambitions. A name familiar to anyone who's hunted for an apartment in the last few years turned up in the comments section.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker's national prominence suggests he's got ambitions higher than running the city, but, until Thursday, he's always kept his cards close to his vest about that.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker apparently loves speaking directly to the public, which is good because he's sure having a hard time getting anyone else to do it for him.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker opened his internet doors to Reddit users in an "Ask Me Anything" session on Sunday. He explained, among other things, what went through his mind when he ran into that burning building.
The internet fiends at Reddit are requesting that Newark Mayor Cory Booker participate in an "Ask Me Anything" session with them, and the request's ascent to the Reddit front page shows the large national profile the mayor has.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker sure had a rough week last week and even though he has plenty of good to show for it, his controversial Meet the Press appearance caused enough strife in his own office that his communications director quit on Tuesday.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker's gaffe -- when he said attacks on Mitt Romney's Bain Capital record were "nauseating" -- was probably not a gaffe at all. Let's assess how it all turned out.
This has been a very good couple days for Cory Booker. After the Democrat equated President Obama's attacks on Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital with Republican attacks on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- both are "nauseating," Booker said -- he has accomplished four things.
Yes, it was a press conference at the NATO summit, nominally about global politics and economics, but in an election year it's no surprise the second question for President Barack Obama was about Newark Mayor Cory Booker's criticism of his campaign's attacks on Mitt Romney.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker's appearance on Meet the Press in which he condemned attacks on Mitt Romney's career at Bain Capital as "nauseating" and urging Democrats to "Stop attacking private equity" went great -- for Cory Booker.
Karl Rove thinks the proposed Jeremiah Wright attack ad was a "stupid" idea on Fox News Sunday; Paul Ryan defends his budget and dodges a question over whether or not he's being considered as Mitt's running mate on Meet the Press.
Saving people's lives: So hot right now. On Tuesday, Dustin Hoffman and Mila Kunis became the latest A-listers to get plaudits for their recent acts of decency.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Dominic Basulto has an interesting piece in The Washington Post arguing that for politicians in the internet era, a viral meme is the new soundbite.
As the tri-state area and beyond congratulate Cory Booker for saving a woman from a fire and basically out-superhero-ing the nonchalant snack man and hero Ryan Gosling, we wonder how New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg feels.
The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, suffered smoke inhalation and minor burns to his hands after rushing into a burning building last night to help a rescue a woman inside.
One way the New York Police Department is trying to deflect blame for this whole Muslim spying story: Tattling on their colleagues in New Jersey.
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