The Assignment with Audie Cornish
5.0/5
Critic Rating
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 renaiss...
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."
