The Assignment with Audie Cornish
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Oct 21, 2025
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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.
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Horror Used to Be Escapism. Now It’s a Mirror
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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What Zohran Mamdani’s Rise Says About the Future of the Left
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Why Everyone Started Paying Attention to the WNBA
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Why Orwell's '1984' is having a moment in 2025
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Uncovering the Story of Police Torture in Chicago
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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How MAGA and Billionaires Are Reshaping What Media You Consume
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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How to Break the Cycle of Political Violence
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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How Algorithms Are Rewiring the Way We Talk
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Why Are Shows Like ‘Hunting Wives' and ‘Yellowstone’ So Popular Now?
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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The Generation That Inherited Hurricane Katrina
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Dating Apps and the Demise of American Romance
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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The Offline Rebellion of the Most Online Generation
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Are Respectability Politics Over?
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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What the Recent Obsession with Yachts Says About Class in America
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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How Early 2000s Pop Culture Pitted Women Against Each Other
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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What ICE’s Rapid Expansion Could Mean for Your Community
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Will Tariffs Bring Trouble to Toyland?
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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George Takei’s Journey Through Fear, Silence, and Activism
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Alaska’s Senator: 'You’re Roadkill in the Middle’
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Can Weight Loss Drugs and Body Positivity Coexist?
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Can Protestors Manufacture a Tipping Point?
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Is OpenAI Building an Empire or a Religion?
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Klarna's CEO On Why You Should Buy Now, Pay Later
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May 29, 2025 |
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Explaining Diddy’s Domination and Downfall
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May 22, 2025 |
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Why We Believe Crazy S**t —And What We Can Do About It
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May 15, 2025 |
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Catholicism Is So Hot Right Now. Why?
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May 08, 2025 |
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Why Does Dating Feel So Hard Right Now?
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May 01, 2025 |
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Who’s Laughing in Trump’s Second Term?
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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A Wonk-Free Conversation About Tariffs
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Can We Trust AI, or the People Building It?
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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College Arrests: “A Kind of Policy That Ends Democracies”
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Is the Windy City Charting a Course for the Left?
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Are College Athletes Cashing In and Killing the Game?
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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How DOGE Cuts May Affect Your Summer Vacation
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Where Did #MeToo Go?
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Why Elon Musk Wants You to Have More Kids
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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And the Oscar Goes to… the Best Campaign?
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Why Crunchy Conservatives Love RFK Jr.
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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The United States of Elon
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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A Pastor's Stand on Trump's ICE Raids
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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The ‘Sober Curious’ Revolution
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Meet the Man Who Saw the LA Fires Coming
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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How Political Divides Are Destroying Families
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Samantha Bee Is Done with Democrats (For Now)
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Trump’s Tariffs Could Mean Costlier Clothes
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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What a CEO's Murder Tells Us About America
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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How to Build a Politics of Humility
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Scaramucci on Being in Trump’s Orbit
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Should You Post About Your Kids Online?
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Are Progressive Groups Hurting Democrats?
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Trump Owns the GOP. What’s Next for the Party?
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Latino Men Wanted Trump. Why?
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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The Pennsylvania Voters Who May Decide the Race
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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What To Expect on Election Night
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Why the Race Is So Close In the Rust Belt
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Election Workers Under Siege
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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The Grieving Father Who Took Down Alex Jones
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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In Purple Georgia, The Election Math Is Not So Simple
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Can We Build Our Way Out of the Housing Crisis?
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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The UFC is Trump's Not-So-Secret Weapon
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Why Nevada’s Economic Woes Make It an Election Wildcard
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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The Gen Z Group Making Politics Fun
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Why Black Sororities Matter in Georgia’s Close Race
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Desert Demographics: Arizona in Play
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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What Did Colleges Learn from Campus Protests?
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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LeVar Burton on Optimism During Hard Times
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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How Campaigns Use (And Misuse) Music
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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The DNC and the Passing of the Torch
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Trump, Elon, and Silicon Valley’s Political Sway
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Nazis, Nihilism, and the Evolution of the Fringe Right
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Can Donald Trump Pivot?
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Coconuts, brat, and Kamala Harris: What Does it Mean?
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Inside Biden's Decision
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Why JD Vance is Trump’s VP Pick
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Trump’s Close Call Re-Shapes the Race
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Why We Can’t Look Away From Reality TV
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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The Cracks in the Blue Wall
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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What It Means to Be Patriotic
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Georgia’s Swing-State Spotlight
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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What It’s Like to Be a Diplomat
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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The Key to Pennsylvania? Nikki Haley Voters
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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A New Generation of Storytellers
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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How Popular Is Election Betting?
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Documenting the Golden Age of Hip-Hop
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Steve Bannon is Heading to Prison
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Preparing for a Water Crisis
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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What Polls Do (And Don’t) Tell Us
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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The Economy’s Bad Vibes
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May 30, 2024 |
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Where Trump’s Trials Go Now
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May 27, 2024 |
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Should Schools Ban Phones?
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May 23, 2024 |
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Corruption or “Just Politics”: Sen Menendez on Trial
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May 20, 2024 |
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How Social Media Amplified the Drake-Kendrick Rap Beef
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May 16, 2024 |
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How Kamala Harris is Finding Her Voice
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May 13, 2024 |
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The Power and Promise of Psychedelics in Therapy
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May 09, 2024 |
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How Speaker Mike Johnson Has Survived So Far
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May 06, 2024 |
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How Do We Talk About Campus Protests?
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May 02, 2024 |
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Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett of Pod Save America
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Does Beyoncé Need Country?
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Why Trump Would Rather Be at The Supreme Court
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Pediatricians on the Frontlines of Gender-Affirming Care
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Why Arizona Matters So Much
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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What Would a Second U.S. Civil War Look Like?
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Why Don’t Third Parties Work?
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Is Online Gambling a Public Health Threat?
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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“Preachy Females” of the Democratic Party
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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The Assignment Presents: All There Is with Ashley Judd
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Why Republicans Stick with Trump
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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The Assignment Presents: Chasing Life on IVF
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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What It's Like to Cover a Presidential Candidate Up-Close
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Kara Swisher’s Big Tech Burn Book
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Katie Britt, IVF, and the Fight for Women's Votes
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Counting Votes, Facing Threats: What It's Like to Run an Election
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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A Week of Political High Drama, with Kasie Hunt
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Polyamory Is Having a Moment
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Biden, Trump, and the Border Crisis
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Jake Tapper on American Political Scandal
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Where Does Fani Willis Go From Here?
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Gen Z In the Workplace: Rethinking Business Etiquette
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Mitch McConnell’s Critics Grow Louder
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce: Cultural Supernova
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Clyburn on Power and Compromise
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Roy Wood Jr. on The Daily Show and the Future of Comedy
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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What is Nikki Haley Doing in South Carolina? With Eva McKend
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Healing Political Divisions in the Pews
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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The “Dangerous Undercurrent” in American Politics
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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"Am I Doing This Right?" How To Be a Parent Today
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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If Trump's the Nominee, Who's his Veep?
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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The Backlash Against DEI
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Biden's Re-Election Argument, with Phil Mattingly
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Gen Z Is Challenging How We Think About Work
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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The Year Ahead in Politics with David Chalian
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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The Assignment Presents: All There Is
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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The Assignment Presents: The Axe Files
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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We’re Taking Your Assignments: Drug Shortages and Ageism
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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CNN Political Briefing: Are Young Voters Tuning Out 2024?
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Why More Black Moms Are Choosing Home Births
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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How to Cover Politics with Tara Palmeri
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Ken Burns on History, Truth, and Storytelling
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Can the Biden/Harris Coalition Hold?
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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The Creative Path to Climate Solutions
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Trump’s Second Term Plans
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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What Does It Mean to Be Patriotic?
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Can Anyone Beat Trump?
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Meet The Students Challenging Book Bans
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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China’s Disinformation Campaign Against Americans
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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The Army's Recruitment Challenge
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Should Biden Bow Out? Axelrod Weighs In
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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How Ordinary People Exposed January 6th
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Why Trump’s Ex-Lawyers are Flipping
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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The Serious Business of Romance Novels
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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How The Young Guns Lost the GOP
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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What It's Like to Evacuate in Gaza
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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How Americans Feel About Israel
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Roxane Gay Reflects on 10 Years of Opinions
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Does Fact-Checking Work?
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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A New Assignment: Diving into Politics
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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An Epic Translation for a Modern Audience
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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The Free Speech Wars on Campus
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Greek Life Gone Viral
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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We’re Taking Your Assignments: Money, Marijuana, and Montana
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Hollywood’s Hot Strike Summer
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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The Fight Against Digital Hate
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Fighting Fires on the Frontlines of Climate Change
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Sex and Sensibilities: Let’s Talk About Puriteens
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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The Assignment presents The Axe Files with David Axelrod
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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The Assignment presents Chasing Life with Sanjay Gupta
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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TikTok Is Changing Music, One Song at a Time
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Courting Controversy: Inside the Supreme Court
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Larry Wilmore: A Candid Conversation on Television, Culture, and Creativity
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Meet the New Homeschoolers
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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After Roe: Navigating the Legal Landscape of New Abortion Laws
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Gratuitous Gratuity? The Truth About Tipping
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Wired for Trouble: Kara Swisher on Big Tech
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Flying This Summer? Pack Your Patience
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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What’s Your Sign? Astrology's Modern Renaissance
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May 25, 2023 |
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Navigating Misinformation at the Border
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May 18, 2023 |
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The Rise and Fall of “Woke” with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
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May 11, 2023 |
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AI in the time of Loneliness
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May 04, 2023 |
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Yes, We're All Being Spied On
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Clickbait Fashion Is Taking Over Your Feed
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Louder Than Guns
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Holding Space for Therapy Speak
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Run, Hide, Fight
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Yes, This Economy Is Confusing
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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The Assignment Returns March 23rd
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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The Assignment presents Story of the Week
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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The Assignment presents Chasing Life with Sanjay Gupta
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Politics, But Make It Puppets
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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The New State of Unions
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Kicking the Football Habit
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Life After the Traffic Stop
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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‘I’m kind of lazy.’ Why We Aren’t Going Back to the Movies
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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The Prince and the Press
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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The Long Arc of Long Covid
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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New Year, New Assignments
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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The Assignment presents All There Is with Anderson Cooper
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Journalism on the Ropes
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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When the Chanting Stops
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Pediatricians Caught in a Political Crossfire
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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My Bread and Butter: The OnlyFans Economy
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Trauma, Trauma Everywhere
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Meet The Parents Taking Over School Boards
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Introducing: The Assignment
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Nov 04, 2022 |