The Assignment with Audie Cornish
5.0/5
Critic Rating
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.
Critic Reviews
Score: 5
Sarah Larson • New Yorker • Mar 24, 2023
"“The Assignment” is an antidote to that environment...the show is almost always novel; you come to know the participants as workers and thinkers, rather than as symbols for political issues. It’s hard to imagine Cornish doing something like it on NPR. By stressing curiosity over persuasion, she returns the work of the news—the puzzling through of a problem, the forging of connection—to the people at its heart."
