News Podcasts

Dr. Death

36 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 80.9K ratings
We’re at our most vulnerable when we go to our doctors. We trust the person at the other end of that scalpel. We trust the hospital. We trust the system. Christopher Duntsch was a neurosur...

Serial

42 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 65K ratings
Serial is a podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial unfolds one story - a true story - over the course of a whole season. The show follows the plot and chara...

Pod Save America

464 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 64.8K ratings
Four former aides to President Obama—Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer and Tommy Vietor—are joined by journalists, politicians, activists, and more for a no-b******t conversation about politics...

Up First

260 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 41.7K ratings
NPR's Up First is the news you need to start your day. The three biggest stories of the day, with reporting and analysis from NPR News — in 10 minutes. Available weekdays by 6 a.m. ET, with hosts R...

Dirty John

26 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 39.4K ratings
Debra Newell is a successful interior designer. She meets John Meehan, a handsome man who seems to check all the boxes: attentive, available, just back from a year in Iraq with Doctors With...

Verdict with Ted Cruz

61 episodes - Latest episode: 22 days ago - ★★★★★ - 32.4K ratings
Join Senator Ted Cruz and co-host Michael Knowles as they break down the most important news stories of the day and reveal what they mean for you. On "Verdict with Ted Cruz,” you will go behind the...

Planet Money

800 episodes - Latest episode: about 11 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 24.5K ratings
The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, "Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy." Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.

True Crime Garage

153 episodes - Latest episode: about 21 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 24.3K ratings
Each week Nic and the Captain fire up the true crime garage flying ship fueled with beer, great discussion and listener participation. The garage covers a new case each week from headline news to l...

Over My Dead Body

46 episodes - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 24.1K ratings
We all have limits. And some people who are pushed beyond those limits will do unspeakable things. In “Tally,” season One of OVER MY DEAD BODY, Dan and Wendi are two good-looking attorneys...

Slow Burn

47 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 20.9K ratings
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a white supremacist became an American political phenomenon. David Duke’s rise to power and prominence—his election to the Louisiana legislature, and then his cam...

Lovett or Leave It

179 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 20.6K ratings
Former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett and a panel of comedians, actors, journalists, and some of the many famous Friends of the Pod appear before a live audience to break down the week’s biggest new...

Pod Save the World

202 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 18.6K ratings
“Pod Save America” cohost Tommy Vietor thought foreign policy was boring and complicated until he got the education of a lifetime working for President Obama’s National Security Council. On “Pod Sa...

Louder With Crowder

358 episodes - Latest episode: about 20 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 17.5K ratings
Steven Crowder brings you news, entertainment and politics with the most politically incorrect show on the web. Guests, rants, sketches, your calls ... it's whatever.

FiveThirtyEight Politics

350 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 16.1K ratings
Nate Silver and the FiveThirtyEight team cover the latest in politics, tracking the issues and "game-changers" every week.

Dateline NBC

315 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 15.3K ratings
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations.

Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald

172 episodes - Latest episode: about 5 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 14.6K ratings
When Heather isn't headlining theaters across the country as a top stand up comedian, or being the perfect wife and mother of 3, she is diving into juicy pop culture. From all things Hollywood, ce...

Crimetown

52 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 13.4K ratings
Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, ...

Mark Levin Podcast

836 episodes - Latest episode: about 11 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 12.8K ratings
Mark Levin is one of the hottest properties in Talk radio today. He is also one of the leading authors in the conservative political arena. Mark's radio show on WABC in New York City skyrocketed to...

The Lincoln Project

68 episodes - Latest episode: about 21 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 12.7K ratings
American politics is in crisis. Together, the founders of The Lincoln Project have spent over 200 years electing Republicans. But now, they’ve sparked a nationwide movement with a singular mission:...

Real Time with Bill Maher

521 episodes - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★ - 12.5K ratings
Download and watch full episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher including his New Rules and Overtime segments with his guest panelists. New episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher air Fridays at 10, on...

The Thing About Pam

21 episodes - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★★ - 11.8K ratings
Two days after Christmas, 2011, Russ Faria came home from game night to find his wife, Betsy, dead. He was soon charged and convicted of her murder. But Russ Faria insisted he did not kill ...

Code Switch

259 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 10.6K ratings
What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for! Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race head-on. We explore how it impac...

Embedded

67 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 10.3K ratings
Host Kelly McEvers takes a story from the news and goes deep. Whether that means digging into the Trump administration's past, the stories behind police shootings caught on video, or visiting a tow...

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

125 episodes - Latest episode: about 11 hours ago - ★★★★ - 10K ratings
Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the importance of transparency and accountabi...

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

117 episodes - Latest episode: about 22 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 8.8K ratings
Congressman Dan Crenshaw joins the world's leading experts for deep and insightful conversations about the most important issues facing us today.

Common Sense with Dan Carlin

21 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8.4K ratings
Loud, fast-talking and deceptively funny, this politically-independent "forward-thinking pragmatist" looks at the events shaping our world through a uniquely American lens. It's smarter than you th...

The Tony Kornheiser Show

569 episodes - Latest episode: about 23 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 8.1K ratings
"The Tony Kornheiser Show" (now available exclusively on-demand) is a topical, daily talk show that starts with sports and quickly moves into politics, current events, entertainment and, really, wh...

What A Day

263 episodes - Latest episode: about 5 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 8.1K ratings
What A Day cuts through all the chaos and clickbait to help you understand what matters and how you can fix it—all in just 15 minutes. Comedian Akilah Hughes and reporter Gideon Resnick break down ...

Undisclosed

608 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★ - 8K ratings
The Undisclosed podcast investigates wrongful convictions, and the U.S. criminal justice system, by taking a closer look at the perpetration of a crime, its investigation, the trial, and ultimate v...

Pod Save the People

193 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8K ratings
Organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with analysis from Sam Sinyangwe, Kaya Henderson, and De’Ara Balenger. Then he sits down for deep conversa...