The Assignment with Audie Cornish

A podcast by CNN - Thursdays

Thursdays

163 Episodes

  1. Why Trump’s Ex-Lawyers are Flipping

    Published: 10/31/2023
  2. The Serious Business of Romance Novels

    Published: 10/26/2023
  3. How The Young Guns Lost the GOP

    Published: 10/24/2023
  4. What It's Like to Evacuate in Gaza

    Published: 10/19/2023
  5. How Americans Feel About Israel

    Published: 10/17/2023
  6. Roxane Gay Reflects on 10 Years of Opinions

    Published: 10/12/2023
  7. Does Fact-Checking Work?

    Published: 10/10/2023
  8. A New Assignment: Diving into Politics

    Published: 10/5/2023
  9. An Epic Translation for a Modern Audience

    Published: 9/28/2023
  10. The Free Speech Wars on Campus

    Published: 9/21/2023
  11. Greek Life Gone Viral

    Published: 9/14/2023
  12. We’re Taking Your Assignments: Money, Marijuana, and Montana

    Published: 9/7/2023
  13. Hollywood’s Hot Strike Summer

    Published: 8/31/2023
  14. The Fight Against Digital Hate

    Published: 8/24/2023
  15. Fighting Fires on the Frontlines of Climate Change

    Published: 8/17/2023
  16. Sex and Sensibilities: Let’s Talk About Puriteens

    Published: 8/10/2023
  17. The Assignment presents The Axe Files with David Axelrod

    Published: 8/3/2023
  18. The Assignment presents Chasing Life with Sanjay Gupta

    Published: 7/27/2023
  19. TikTok Is Changing Music, One Song at a Time

    Published: 7/20/2023
  20. Courting Controversy: Inside the Supreme Court

    Published: 7/13/2023

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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.