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The Assignment with Audie Cornish
by CNNEach week on The Assignment, host Audie Cornish pulls listeners out of their digital echo chambers to hear from the people whose lives intersect with the news cycle. From the sex work economy to the battle over what’s taught in classrooms, no topic is off the table. Listen to The Assignment every Monday and Thursday.
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Episodes
The Army's Recruitment Challenge
32m · PublishedShould Biden Bow Out? Axelrod Weighs In
25m · PublishedHow Ordinary People Exposed January 6th
29m · PublishedWhy Trump’s Ex-Lawyers are Flipping
24m · PublishedThe Serious Business of Romance Novels
25m · PublishedHow The Young Guns Lost the GOP
26m · PublishedMore than a decade ago, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan and Eric Cantor pitched themselves as the future of the Republican Party. They even gave themselves a nickname: The Young Guns. Now those dreams are dashed, The Young Guns are scattered to the wind, and House Republicans are rudderless, unable to elect a Speaker ten months into their majority. How did we get here?
S.E. Cupp, a conservative political commentator for CNN, breaks down what happened to the Young Guns – and why being called “the future of the party” is really a curse.
Video: They were the future of the GOP. Then MAGA came.
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What It's Like to Evacuate in Gaza
21m · PublishedThousands of people have already been killed in the Israel-Hamas conflict. And Israel has told residents of northern Gaza to evacuate roughly 20 miles to the south for their own safety. This week Audie talks with CNN’s Yahya Abou-Ghazala as he shares the stories of the people who have been told to flee, and what it’s been like trying to get stories out of Gaza right now.
Read Yahya’s recent stories:
They followed evacuation orders. An Israeli airstrike killed them the next day.
In Gaza, Palestinians have no safe place from Israel’s bombs
Listen to CNN’s daily podcast about the conflict, Tug of War “Israel at War”.
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How Americans Feel About Israel
20m · PublishedHow do Americans feel about Israel? Broadly, there is deep sympathy for Israel and its response to Hamas in Gaza. But polling shows that among America’s more diverse, younger generation, attitudes toward both Israel and Palestinians are more complicated.
Harry Enten, Senior Data Reporter at CNN, is here to parse the numbers and tease out some conclusions.
Oct. 15 CNN Poll: Americans are deeply sympathetic toward Israelis and see their military response to Hamas attacks as justified
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Roxane Gay Reflects on 10 Years of Opinions
25m · PublishedWriter Roxane Gay comes from a generation of what you might call “very online.” She gained international fame because she had a distinctive voice that stood far from the madding crowd on social media. This week Audie talks with Roxane about her new collection of essays, “Opinions,” how her opinions have changed, what it's like to become famous for sharing them, and how social media changed the way we all think about criticism and professional opinion.
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Does Fact-Checking Work?
22m · PublishedThe political landscape has never been more confusing, and to some, even overwhelming. How do we determine fact from fiction? What keeps fact-checkers up at night? And what’s a democracy to do when even the professionals aren't believed?
Today, we have Daniel Dale, a CNN senior reporter who rose to prominence for fact-checking former President Donald Trump, and Matthew Facciani, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Notre Dame. He studies people who fall victim to misinformation and how to best engage with them in a compassionate way.
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The Assignment with Audie Cornish has 94 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 43:44:37. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on February 22nd 2023. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on February 24th, 2024 14:41.