The Assignment with Audie Cornish

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Is the Windy City Charting a Course for the Left?

What’s the way out of the political wilderness for Democrats? The mayor of Chicago says look to his city “leading the way in this moment around the value system that the people of America want to see carried out in governance.” Audie talks with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson about his political path forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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  How Algorithms Are Rewiring the Way We Talk

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  The Generation That Inherited Hurricane Katrina