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The beauty and entitlement of traveling as a tourist

Summer is a time when many Americans are taking off from work and setting their sights on far-off vacation destinations: tropical beaches, fairy-tale cities, sun-drenched countrysides. But in her book Airplane Mode, the reluctant travel writer Shahnaz Habib warns of recklessly embracing what she calls "passport privilege," — and how that can skew peoples' images of what the world is and who it belongs to. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

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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.