Guest: Laura Gomez, Author and UCLA Professor of LawHost Ruben Navarrette welcomes back his friend, and former college classmate, UCLA Law Professor Laura Gomez to discuss one of her specialties which also happens to be the latest boogeyman for white male conservatives: critical race theory.

Host Ruben Navarrette explores America’s blind spot with Latinos (aka “The other non-white meat”) who — according to a new survey — are less like African-Americans than they are the Italian and Irish immigrants of 100 years ago.

Host Ruben Navarrette speaks with his friend Chris Valadez, CEO of The Grower-Shipper Association of Central California about a new vaccination project aimed at farm workers and a new California drought as well as old challenges over labor and trade as farming plows through the 21st Century.

Host Ruben Navarrette discusses how mega-podcaster Joe Rogan — a straight white male who recently signed a $100M deal with Spotify — believes that straight white men are being oppressed, canceled, and silenced. Seriously.

Host Ruben Navarrette reflects on his own visit to Israel in 2012 and offers his analysis on what’s causing the latest round of Middle East violence — and the one before that. Hint: It’s not land, politics or religion. It’s hate, bigotry, and revenge.

Host Ruben Navarrette interviews his longtime friend and foil, Sacramento-based policy analyst and political consultant Arnold Torres about the strange happenings in California politics: including the attempted recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom and whether a Latino Democrat couldn’t be the party’s best chance of keeping the governor’s mansion.

Host Ruben Navarrette delves into the hilarious episode of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez being harassed and harangued by the GOP’s version of AOC: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who recently chased the Democratic congresswoman through the halls of Congress demanding that she debate her. This sounds familiar. AOC has engaged in her share of theatrics. This is…

Host Ruben Navarrette unpacks the recent criticism of “woke-ism” by some liberal Democrats — some White liberal Democrats — who fear that it is driving voters away from the Democratic Party. Latinos aren’t fans of the woke movement because it runs afoul of freedom and patriotism. Meanwhile, the GOP gets it wrong by playing the…

Host Ruben Navarrette interviews his friend, Todd Bensman — an ex-journalist and now senior fellow at the Washington DC-based anti-immigrant group The Center for Immigration Studies — about the refugee border crisis and his new book on how Islamic radicals infiltrate the U.S.-Mexico border. Guest: Todd Bensman, Author of “America’s Covert Border War: The Untold…

Host Ruben Navarrette debunks the rumored demise of the Golden State, which is still home to 40 million people, controls 10% of the U.S. economy, and holds 20% of the electoral votes necessary to elect the president of the United States. California is the state of second chances, and those never go out of style.