We’re Taking Your Assignments: Drug Shortages and Ageism

We’re Taking Your Assignments: Drug Shortages and Ageism

How does ageism impact all of us? What is causing the chemotherapy drug shortage? These questions come from you, our listeners, who call in week after week with ideas for our next assignment. This week Audie speaks with CNN Health reporter Jacqueline Howard and Gerontologist Dr. Tracey Gendron about the future of ongoing pharmaceutical drug shortages and the impact ageism could have on the 2024 presidential election. If you have an assignment you’d like us to look into, leave us a voicemail at 202-854-8802 and you might just hear your voice on an upcoming episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hollywood’s Hot Strike Summer

Hollywood’s Hot Strike Summer

For Labor Day — the unofficial end of summer and the official holiday celebrating the American worker — we are checking in on the state of the striking actors and writers demanding more from the studi...

31 Aug 202325min

The Fight Against Digital Hate

The Fight Against Digital Hate

Imran Ahmed is a man in the middle of the disinformation wars. He is the CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), an organization dedicated to researching online hate speech and disinform...

24 Aug 202338min

Fighting Fires on the Frontlines of Climate Change

Fighting Fires on the Frontlines of Climate Change

Devastating wildfires like the ones in Maui could become more common in our future due to a host of several factors, including climate change. But what about the folks who are already grappling with t...

17 Aug 202332min

Sex and Sensibilities: Let’s Talk About Puriteens

Sex and Sensibilities: Let’s Talk About Puriteens

Have you heard about the “puriteens”? That’s the nickname for Gen Z’ers who are uncomfortable with sex and sexuality, and discuss that discomfort, largely online. Well, the media is obsessed with them...

10 Aug 202328min

The Assignment presents The Axe Files with David Axelrod

The Assignment presents The Axe Files with David Axelrod

When Audie Cornish first crossed paths with David Axelrod, she was a young radio reporter with no clout and he was the big-shot campaign manager of then-candidate Barack Obama. No wonder she couldn't ...

3 Aug 20231h 1min

The Assignment presents Chasing Life with Sanjay Gupta

The Assignment presents Chasing Life with Sanjay Gupta

Why is there such stigma attached to getting older? How can we prepare to transition through the different stages of life? Those are some of the questions CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay ...

27 Jul 202348min

TikTok Is Changing Music, One Song at a Time

TikTok Is Changing Music, One Song at a Time

TikTok has turned the traditional music industry on its head. Users on the platform are dictating hits before they reach the charts and revolutionizing the way artists are discovered. But what happens...

20 Jul 202334min

Courting Controversy: Inside the Supreme Court

Courting Controversy: Inside the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court just completed a historic term that sent the country spinning and CNN’s own Joan Biskupic is here to help make sense of it all. Joan’s 30-year career reporting on the court has affor...

13 Jul 202339min

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