Ruben In The Center

Host Ruben Navarrette takes a critical look at his own profession in light of the scandal/non-scandal involving CNN’s Chris Cuomo advising his brother, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, about how to get out of a scape of his own. But that’s just the beginning.

Guest: Laura Gomez, Author and UCLA Professor of Law Host 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 farmworkers 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.

Topic: “California Politics: Where the Pacific Meets the Crazy” Guest: Arnold Torres 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...

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 justice.

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 victim against the woke; it has little to worry about.

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 Story of the Nation’s Battle to Pr...

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.

Host Ruben Navarrette explains the real takeaway from a depressing April jobs report that came in at only about a quarter of what economists had predicted. The problem is not that U.S. workers don’t want to work. I suspect it's that they don’t want to work for U.S. employers. Whose fault is that? U.S. employers.

Guest: Laura Gomez Host Ruben Navarrette has a conversation with author and UCLA Law Professor Laura Gomez about the 2020 Census and what it’s likely to tell us about 60M Latinos and the “other.”

Host Ruben Navarrette gives a fair, honest, down-the-middle assessment of President Joe Biden’s first 100 days — the good, the bad, and the indefensible.

Host Ruben Navarrette discusses the attack by White liberals on Sen. Tim Scott, R-SC, as a sellout, an Uncle Tom, and an “oreo” for daring to think for himself.

Host Ruben Navarrette speaks with San Diego author/journalist Jean Guerrero about the hottest story in the country, which also happens to be the most divisive issue since slavery: immigration.

Host Ruben Navarrette breaks down a plan offered up by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador that intends to solve two problems at once: climate change and the refugee crisis.

Host Ruben Navarrette hammers the media for not covering the killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo by Chicago police like they have the killing of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant by police in Columbus, OH.

Host Ruben Navarrette speaks with Bob Harrison, director of California Command College, a three-time former chief of police and co-host — with Ruben — of the podcast “Comm4Cops.”

Host Ruben Navarrette unpacks the likely recall election for California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and why Newsom — master politician but a lousy leader — is likely to win the battle but lose the war.

Host Ruben Navarrette speaks with Lee Ann Kim, a first-generation Korean American, former award-winning television journalist, and founder of the San Diego Asian Film Festival.

Host Ruben Navarrette digs into the deliciously ironic story about how President Biden — who once campaigned against Donald Trump’s border wall — may just now finish it.

Host Ruben Navarrette talks about the ongoing trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and whether the details might be triggering PTSD among black journalists covering it.

Guest: Cathy Areu, Cuban-American writer, publisher of Catalina Magazine, TV commentator, and Host of the Podcast, “The Liberal Sherpa.” Host Ruben Navarrette has an engaging conversation with Cathy Areu, Cuban-American writer, publisher of Catalina Magazine, TV commentator, and host of the podcast, “The Liberal Sherpa.”

Host Ruben Navarrette steers into the intersection of two explosive topics: the refugee crisis involving children and teens & the teacher-union orchestrated lockdown of CA’s public schools.