The Assignment with Audie Cornish
A podcast by CNN - Thursdays

178 Episodes
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Catholicism Is So Hot Right Now. Why?
Published: 5/8/2025 -
Why Does Dating Feel So Hard Right Now?
Published: 5/1/2025 -
Who’s Laughing in Trump’s Second Term?
Published: 4/24/2025 -
A Wonk-Free Conversation About Tariffs
Published: 4/17/2025 -
Can We Trust AI, or the People Building It?
Published: 4/10/2025 -
College Arrests: “A Kind of Policy That Ends Democracies”
Published: 4/3/2025 -
Is the Windy City Charting a Course for the Left?
Published: 3/27/2025 -
Are College Athletes Cashing In and Killing the Game?
Published: 3/20/2025 -
How DOGE Cuts May Affect Your Summer Vacation
Published: 3/13/2025 -
Where Did #MeToo Go?
Published: 3/6/2025 -
Why Elon Musk Wants You to Have More Kids
Published: 2/27/2025 -
And the Oscar Goes to… the Best Campaign?
Published: 2/20/2025 -
Why Crunchy Conservatives Love RFK Jr.
Published: 2/13/2025 -
The United States of Elon
Published: 2/6/2025 -
A Pastor's Stand on Trump's ICE Raids
Published: 1/30/2025 -
The ‘Sober Curious’ Revolution
Published: 1/23/2025 -
Meet the Man Who Saw the LA Fires Coming
Published: 1/16/2025 -
How Political Divides Are Destroying Families
Published: 1/9/2025 -
Samantha Bee Is Done with Democrats (For Now)
Published: 1/2/2025 -
Trump’s Tariffs Could Mean Costlier Clothes
Published: 12/19/2024
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.