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What Trump's language has in common with cult language

Date
Saturday, March 21, 2026 - 3:00 AM
Description
When President Trump says things like “fake news,” “witch hunt” or even “Make America Great Again,” he’s not just using catchy phrases -- he’s persuading people into a way of thinking and believing. This week on Code Switch, we talk to Amanda Montell

The Scouts are too woke, according to Pete Hegseth

Date
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 3:00 AM
Description
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently put Scouting America — formerly known as the Boy Scouts — "on notice." The once great organization was becoming too woke, he said, and had been tarnished by embracing DEI. On this episode, we're talking to

The Black civil rights leader who sued to be called “Miss”

Date
Saturday, March 14, 2026 - 3:00 AM
Description
It’s Alabama, 1963. A black woman stands before a judge, but she refuses to acknowledge his questions until he addresses her by the same honorific given to white women: “Miss.” That woman's name is Mary Hamilton. Her case eventually reached the

Why Iranian perspectives often get flattened and caricatured

Date
Saturday, March 07, 2026 - 3:00 AM
Description
Iran has 90 million people of different ethnicities, faiths, and backgrounds, who have very different ideas about the country. Iranian American scholar Sina Toossi shares some of those varying perspectives with us to help complicate how Iranians feel

How the internet got gentrified

Date
Wednesday, March 04, 2026 - 3:00 AM
Description
We all know what gentrification looks like IRL — boxy, corporate-owned apartment complexes, places to get a quick bowl for lunch, streets that are dubbed "cleaner" and "safer" (even at the expense of the people who used to live there). But what does

Remembering Jesse Jackson

Date
Saturday, February 28, 2026 - 3:05 AM
Description
The late Reverend Jesse Jackson was — and still is — a revered civil rights activist, political trailblazer, and pop culture icon. For his critics, he was also villainized, or at the very least, a punchline. As Jackson's home going ceremony continues

The Young Lords' legacy of fighting for Puerto Rico from the mainland

Date
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 - 3:05 AM
Description
While Puerto Rican independence is in the spotlight after Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show, we're throwing it to our play cousins at La Brega, a show about all things Puerto Rico. We hear from former Young Lords member Iris Morales about how the

What is "white culture," anyway?

Date
Saturday, February 21, 2026 - 3:00 AM
Description
Jeremy Carl — President Trump's nominee for a senior State Department role -- was called out for his commentary on "white erasure" during his Senate confirmation hearing earlier this month. He defended the idea that "white culture" is in danger of