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Clickbait Fashion Is Taking Over Your Feed
Episode 23
Are we cycling through fashion trends faster than ever? Cores, aesthetics, and those big red boots! Our Assignment this week is a deep dive into how …
2 years, 8 months ago
Louder Than Guns
Episode 22
Can Country music help lead the U.S. out of the gun debate? There is a long history of famous country musicians using their platforms to comment on s…
2 years, 9 months ago
Holding Space for Therapy Speak
Episode 21
Why is everyone talking about their “attachment style” or “boundaries” and “triggers”? Therapy speak, both online and IRL, has become a normal part o…
2 years, 9 months ago
Run, Hide, Fight
Episode 20
We have trained a generation of people how to think about, respond to, and survive a mass shooting, including children. Educators and law enforcement…
2 years, 9 months ago
Yes, This Economy Is Confusing
Episode 19
The past few weeks have been head spinning: U.S. job numbers? Solid... except for those layoffs in the tech sector. Inflation? Slowly dropping... but…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Assignment Returns March 23rd
Episode 18
The Assignment is returning with new episodes every Thursday, and we're taking some of our assignments from you, including: trying to figure out our …
2 years, 10 months ago
The Assignment presents Story of the Week
Episode 17
The Assignment is hard at work reporting more stories about the people living the headlines. We’ll have new episodes in the feed starting March 23rd.…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Assignment presents Chasing Life with Sanjay Gupta
Episode 16
The Assignment is taking a short break, we’ll be back with new episodes on March 23rd. In the meantime, we want to highlight the good work of some ou…
2 years, 10 months ago
Politics, But Make It Puppets
Episode 15
Can puppets help us bridge the political divide? Probably not. But there’s one guy in Arizona who’s trying. If you saw Audie on The Late Show with St…
2 years, 10 months ago
The New State of Unions
Episode 14
Do new unions need “Big Labor”? There is a new generation of labor organizers in the United States: baristas, warehouse workers, and grocers. They ar…
2 years, 11 months ago