Code Switch
NPR
NPR's race and culture team tracking how identity shapes labor laws and national politics.
Why we picked this
We picked Code Switch because it treats race not as a niche beat or a periodic news peg, but as the underlying architecture of American life. The journalists behind the show interrogate how identity shapes institutions, labor, and history without relying on academic jargon or easy consensus. Each season builds a durable archive of reporting that explains how we arrived at our current social fractures. Subscribe to the feed for rigorous, clear-eyed reporting that makes daily news legible through a longer historical lens.
Recent episodes
What if men read more books
Oct 23, 202641 min
How "defund the police" became radioactive
Oct 20, 202633 min
Why fascists love “fitness”
Oct 16, 202637 min
How much reality do we want in our reality TV?
Oct 13, 202627 min
How Hollywood stole the zombie from Haiti
Oct 9, 202628 min
The shady deals behind data centers
Oct 6, 202631 min
Let’s stop pretending we desegregated schools
Oct 2, 202642 min
The Lindsay Clancy case and the women we make into monsters
Sep 29, 202629 min
Chris Brown won't get cancelled. This is why.
Sep 25, 202634 min
Do voters want woke?
Sep 22, 202637 min
Is Cuba Trump's next real estate project?
Sep 18, 202625 min
Why can’t people be normal about the WNBA?
Sep 15, 202635 min
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