194 Episodes

  1. What It Means to Be Patriotic

    Published: 7/4/2024
  2. Georgia’s Swing-State Spotlight

    Published: 7/1/2024
  3. What It’s Like to Be a Diplomat

    Published: 6/27/2024
  4. The Key to Pennsylvania? Nikki Haley Voters

    Published: 6/24/2024
  5. A New Generation of Storytellers

    Published: 6/20/2024
  6. How Popular Is Election Betting?

    Published: 6/17/2024
  7. Documenting the Golden Age of Hip-Hop

    Published: 6/13/2024
  8. Steve Bannon is Heading to Prison

    Published: 6/10/2024
  9. Preparing for a Water Crisis

    Published: 6/6/2024
  10. What Polls Do (And Don’t) Tell Us

    Published: 6/3/2024
  11. The Economy’s Bad Vibes

    Published: 5/30/2024
  12. Where Trump’s Trials Go Now

    Published: 5/27/2024
  13. Should Schools Ban Phones?

    Published: 5/23/2024
  14. Corruption or “Just Politics”: Sen Menendez on Trial

    Published: 5/20/2024
  15. How Social Media Amplified the Drake-Kendrick Rap Beef

    Published: 5/16/2024
  16. How Kamala Harris is Finding Her Voice

    Published: 5/13/2024
  17. The Power and Promise of Psychedelics in Therapy

    Published: 5/9/2024
  18. How Speaker Mike Johnson Has Survived So Far

    Published: 5/6/2024
  19. How Do We Talk About Campus Protests?

    Published: 5/2/2024
  20. Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett of Pod Save America

    Published: 4/29/2024

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Every Thursday on The Assignment, host Audie Cornish explores the animating forces of this extraordinary American political moment. It’s not about the horse race, it’s about the larger cultural ideas driving the conversation: the role of online influencers on the electorate, the intersection of pop culture and politics, and discussions with primary voices and thinkers who are shaping the political conversation.