November 26, 2025 • As we enter "cozy season," we're revisiting our conversation with Ada Limon, who just wrapped up her ...

BROOKLINE, Mass. — In breakrooms and boardrooms across America, women are consciously changing how they talk. A new survey reveals that 82% of working women shift their speaking style when they’re on ...

Award-winning journalist Lori Lizarraga is a co-host of NPR's Code Switch, the preeminent podcast about race and identity in America. Before joining NPR, she reported across the country in Texas, ...

What exactly is code-switching? Many of us may do it and not even realize it. Others may have never heard this term before, and some others may not acknowledge it as a real thing. Usually groups in ...

In sociology, code switching is when a person alters their speech to conform to different cultural norms. For example, marginalized people may use one way of speaking around their community and ...

The Penn janitorial employee wipes down your table after you and your friends finish lunch in Houston Market, clearing the mess you left behind. You, seemingly the only one in your group to ...