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How Zohran Mamdani is scrambling establishment Democrat's brains

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How Elon Musk and JD Vance plan to 'save civilization' with more babies

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Unpacking the Trump administration's immigration raid in Chicago

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Racist slurs, naughty words, and how dictionary editors define them

105

What does Israel mean to American Jews?

106

Stacey Abrams on how voter suppression threatens democracy

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Voting rights are at risk. Here's why.

108

Why Malala Yousafzai is a hero in the West but not back home

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Is the American dream a scam?

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The stakes of calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide

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How calls for mass deportations went mainstream

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Digging into our ancestors' drama

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How racism kept Americans out of pools

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How Trump's D.C. takeover criminalizes homelessness

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Statelessness, but make it funny

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Hot weather kills. Who gets protected?

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You told us — what brings you joy

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Is joy an act of resistance?

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Protests are near constant. Do they work?

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Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media

121

The books, movies and music that shaped the Code Switch team

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From gr*pists to nip nops, how self-censorship shapes the language of TikTok

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The lighter side of immigration: A day at the park in Queens

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Dispatches from the living memory of trans people of color

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Iranian American identity was under scrutiny long before the U.S. struck Iran

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The administration's fight against antisemitism is dividing Jews

127

How the news makes us think we need more cops

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What Trump's fixation on 'white genocide' in South Africa tells us about the U.S.

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Why tacos are as 'American' as apple pie

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How race science shows up at the doctor's office

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Arab and Black communities are trying to reconcile after Trump's election

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40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV

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In the face of trans erasure, what can we learn from Marsha P. Johnson?

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Why now is the time to find power in "otherness"

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Revisiting the fight over the Lakota language as Trump targets "divisive narratives"

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Why Trump is sending Venezuelans to El Salvador

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What's lost in Trump's DEI ban?

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With measles on the rise, what we can learn from past epidemics

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What Mahmoud Khalil's arrest means for ... everyone

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This Palestinian American's debut novel may not be political — but her existence is

141

A look at the human toll of the construction of the Panama Canal

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Black audiences see themselves centered in a brand new soap opera

143

The NFL's concussion problem beyond CTE

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What a Black enclave lost in the Los Angeles wildfires

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An NFL star on what the game costs those who play it

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Untangling the history of Black rights on Native land

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What football tells us about race, labor and power

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Hip-hop is 'fight the power' but also advertises for the power

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B.A. Parker is learning the banjo

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The co-opting of MLK Jr. by...everybody

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Why laughing while crying is so Korean

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"The police are our friends"?

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How celebrating an Ecuadorian New Year's tradition brings us closer together

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He was shot in Vermont. Now he wants to go home to the West Bank

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Luigi Mangione and America's pent up pain

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Freedom, Autonomy and the Elián González Story

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Dreaming of a Black Utopia in Trump's America

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Where tradwives and leftists agree

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Momfluencers, tradwives, and the perils of modern motherhood

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The 'little r' racist idea that swung the election

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When Pretendian investigations go wrong

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The day Trump won...again

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You can't outrun voters' feelings about the economy

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Diving into the Black Manosphere

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Spitting on Andrew Jackson's grave with Rebecca Nagle

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In Michigan, Arab Americans weigh the power of a vote

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Ask Code Switch: Am I the "token" at work?

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Two Palestinian writers on the right to share their stories

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Ask Code Switch: Is it a preference or fetish?

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The Trump campaign strategy to demonize Haitian immigrants

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Ask Code Switch: Is picky eating about taste or race?

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Latinos are moving to the far right. Paola Ramos thinks she knows why

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Ask Code Switch: Do bike lanes cause gentrification?

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Fighting back on book bans

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Ask Code Switch: The racial politics of washing dishes?

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The park. Sunday. Queens, New York.

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Ask Code Switch: Is this a racist question?

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Going back to school with schizoaffective disorder

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What James Baldwin can teach us about Israel, and ourselves

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Black praise in white pews: When your church doesn't love you back

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Race, Romance and Reality TV

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Who's "woman" enough: The long history of sex testing in sports

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The beauty and entitlement of traveling as a tourist

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'Not a badge of honor': how book bans affect Indigenous literature

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Kamala Harris, Revisited

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The return of the U.S.'s oldest drag king

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Honoring my enslaved ancestors: Episode 2

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Honoring my enslaved ancestors: Episode 1

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How one event in history can ripple through generations of a family

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The truth and lies behind one of the most banned books in America

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Some freed people actually received '40 acres and a mule.' Then it got taken away.

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The history of trans misogyny is the history of segregation

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Should we stop using the word "felon"?

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100 years of immigration policies working to keep out immigrants

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White evangelical Christians are some of Israel's biggest supporters. Why?

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Falling in love in a time of colonization

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Why the trope of the 'outside agitator' persists

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In 'Chicano Frankenstein,' the undead are the new underpaid labor force

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Exclusion, resilience and the Chinese American experience on 'Mott Street'

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How Jewish Communities Are Divided Over Support of Israel