Code Switch

We've said it before: The U.S. Census is way more than cold, hard data. It informs what we call ourselves and how we're represented. On this episode, we explore the controversial citizenship question that the Trump administration added to the 2020 census. We also talk about how the U.S. Census helped create the 'Hispanic' label.

Muchos migrantes que esperan su audiencia para solicitar asilo en Estados Unidos tienen que tomar una decisión difícil: pueden quedarse detenidos mientras su caso avanza en el sistema, o pueden pagar una fianza que muchas veces es exageradamente cara. Varios de los que deciden pagar esta fianza usan los servicios de una compañía que se promueve como proinmigrantes, pero la realidad es mucho más complicada de lo que aparenta.

We're all guilty of getting too comfortable - with our routines, social circles, the status quo. But is it stopping us from growing? This hour, TED speakers explore ways to push out of comfort zones. Guests include entrepreneur and podcaster Tim Ferriss, organizational psychologist Tanya Menon, author and blogger Luvvie Ajayi, writer Ann Morgan, and humanitarian activist Dan Pallotta.

Muslims make up a little over one percent of the U.S. population, but they seem to take up an outsized space in the American imagination. On this episode we explore why that is.

El soldado Micolta es uno de los personajes más reconocidos del popular programa de televisión colombiano Sábados Felices. Es una caricatura de todos los estereotipos negativos que hay contra los afrocolombianos: torpe, perezoso, ingenuo e ignorante. Además habla con un acento exagerado propio de la costa del Pacífico, la región con más afrodescendientes en el país...

Love it or hate it, most of us have to work for a living. So, how can we make work more meaningful? This hour, TED speakers explore our values and motivations when it comes to the workplace. Guests include entrepreneur Margaret Heffernan, psychologist Barry Schwartz, behavioral economist Dan Ariely, and tech entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley. (Original broadcast date: October 2, 2015).

Today, Americans tend to think of Jewish people as white folks, but it wasn't always that way. On this episode, we dig into the complex role Jewish identity has played in America's racial story — especially now, when anti-Semitism is on the rise.

Al conocerse, Jazmín Elizondo y Laura Flores-Estrada tuvieron una conexión intensa. Encontraron una mejor versión de ellas mismas la una en la otra, y nunca jamás quisieron volver a estar separadas. Pero es difícil tener una relación en una sociedad que te discrimina por tu orientación sexual. Esta es la historia de cómo, gracias a un error burocrático, un acto de amor se convirtió en un acto de protesta.

In this hour, TED speakers explain how everything in nature is connected, and how we can restore its delicate balance. Guests include journalist George Monbiot, author Jane Poynter, bioacoustician Bernie Krause, and entomologist Marla Spivak (Original broadcast date: September 27, 2013).

It's the force that animates so much of what we cover on Code Switch. And on the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, we take a look at some ways residential segregation is still shaping the ways we live. We head to a border with an ironic name , before dropping in on a movement to remap parts of the South.