Donald Trump

Comic Zahra Noorbakhsh on why she finds herself wanting to connect with her religious traditions. She co-hosts the podcast Good Muslim Bad Muslim.

How the media reports on crude language when a public figure is caught using it on tape. . . for instance Donald Trump.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg considers the derogative words used to describe many of Donald Trump's supporters - words like hillbilly, white trash, and redneck, and what those words say about class conflict.

Donald Trump's pledge to be the "law and order" candidate revived a slogan that's associated with Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign. Many people have heard that phrase as racially coded, then and now. But linguist Geoff Nunber notes, its resonances aren't quite the same as they were back then.