Cory Booker Wants To Be Asked About Nonproliferation

Perhaps the most interesting tidbit from Matt Bai's NYT Mag piece on the new generation of black politicians:

“I don’t want to be pigeonholed,” [Cory Booker] said. “I don’t want people to expect me to speak about those issues.” By this, presumably, he meant issues that revolve around race: profiling by police, incarceration rates, flagging urban economies. “I want people to ask me about nonproliferation. I want them to run to me to speak about the situation in the Middle East.” Since the mayor of Newark is rarely called upon to discuss such topics, I got the feeling that Booker does not see himself staying in his current job for anything close to 20 years.