Code Switch : NPR

This week on the podcast, we're revisiting a conversation we had with Ava Chin about her book, Mott Street. Through decades of painstaking research, the fifth-generation New Yorker discovered the...

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1197956357/exclusion-resilience-and-the-chinese-american-experience-on-mott-street

In the wake of October 7, and the bombardment of Gaza by the Israeli government, many American Jews have found themselves questioning something that had long felt like a given: that if you were J...

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/24/1197956326/jewish-communities-divided-over-israel

The Panama Canal has been dubbed the greatest engineering feat in human history. It's also (perhaps less favorably) been called the greatest liberty mankind has ever taken with Mother Nature. But...

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/17/1197956297/the-great-divide

What's a portrait of Frederick Douglass doing hanging in an Irish-themed pub in Washington, D.C.? To get to the answer, Parker and Gene dive deep into the long history of solidarity and exchange ...

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/10/1197956191/frederick-douglass-and-irish-solidarity

Many Lakota people agree: It's imperative to revitalize the Lakota language. But how exactly to do that is a matter of broader debate. Should Lakota be codified and standardized to make learning ...

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/27/1197956092/in-lakota-nation-people-are-asking-who-does-a-language-belong-to

This episode is brought to you by our play cousins over at NPR's It's Been A Minute. Brittany Luse chops it up with New Yorker writer and podcast host Vinson Cunningham to discuss his debut novel...

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2024/03/20/1197956040/getting-let-down-by-the-great-expectations-of-electoral-politics

We've probably said it a hundred times on Code Switch — biological race is not a real thing. So why is race still used to help diagnose certain conditions, like keloids or cystic fibrosis? On t...

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/13/1197955918/race-in-medicine-andrea-deyrup

In February of 1942 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government issued an executive order to incarcerate people of Japanese descent. That legacy has become a defining story of Japanese...

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1197955841/japanese-american-musicians-across-generations-draw-identity-from-incarceration

In the U.S., flavored cigarettes have been banned since 2009, with one glaring exception: menthols. That exception was supposed to go away in 2023, but the Biden administration quietly delayed th...

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/21/1197955817/the-minty-past-and-cloudy-future-of-menthol-cigarettes

Recently, conversation about the age of the 2024 presidential candidates has risen to a fever pitch. That's the sign of a deeper problem with how our culture views aging.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2024/02/16/1231828178/how-ageism-against-biden-and-trump-puts-older-folks-at-risk