The Assignment with Audie Cornish

A podcast by CNN

126 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 Monday on The Assignment, host Audie Cornish explores the animating forces of American politics. It’s not about the horserace, it’s about the larger cultural ideas driving the American electorate. Audie draws on the deep well of CNN reporters, editors, and contributors to examine topics like the nuances of building electoral coalitions, and the role the media plays in modern elections.  Every Thursday, Audie pulls listeners out of their digital echo chambers to hear from the people whose lives intersect with the news cycle, as well as deep conversations with people driving the headlines. From astrology’s modern renaissance to the free speech wars on campus, no topic is off the table.