Policy News Podcasts

All In with Chris Hayes

763 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4.8K ratings
The biggest news and political stories of the day with a commitment to in-depth reporting that consistently seeks to hold our leaders accountable.

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

1,214 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★ - 2K ratings
Listen to "NBC Nightly News," providing reports and analysis of the day's most newsworthy national and international events. This audio podcast, updated each evening, brings you the day's show in i...

City Journal's 10 Blocks

377 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 567 ratings
City Journal's 10 Blocks, a weekly podcast hosted by editor Brian C. Anderson, features discussions on urban policy and culture with City Journal editors, contributors, and special guests. Forthcom...

Bloggingheads.tv

829 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Smart people talking about politics, policy, culture and other stuff

Texas Tribune TribCast

759 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 239 ratings
Hosted by the Tribune's Alexa Ura and featuring a rotating cast of Tribune reporters, editors and special guests, the TribCast is an informal – and, with luck, amusing – discussion of Texas politic...

Radical Imagination

48 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 175 ratings
Racism, toxic inequality, persistent poverty, climate change: these are big serious problems, and if you believe they require big audacious solutions, then this is the podcast for you. Hosted by An...

Israel Policy Pod

330 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★ - 146 ratings
A weekly podcast that goes beyond the headlines to bring you analysis from Israel Policy Forum experts and distinguished guests including policymakers, activists, and academics.

She Thinks

494 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 145 ratings
She Thinks is a podcast for women (and men) who are sick of the spin in today’s news cycle and are seeking the truth. Once a week, every week, She Thinks host Beverly Hallberg is joined by guests w...

70 Million

66 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 126 ratings
This award-winning and Peabody-nominated podcast documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards. Reporters travel around the country and hear from people directly impacted...

Texas Tribune Brief

808 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 101 ratings
Get the latest news on Texas politics and policy from The Texas Tribune now on Amazon Alexa. With reporters based in Austin, Washington, D.C., and on the U.S.–Mexico border, we are your go-to sourc...

Caveat

249 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 84 ratings
Join us for thought provoking conversations on surveillance, digital privacy, and cybersecurity law and policy in the information age. Each week, hosts Dave Bittner and Ben Yelin break down the hea...

Young Farmers Podcast

70 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 83 ratings
The Young Farmers Podcast, a project of the National Young Farmers Coalition, is digging into the most critical issues facing the future of farming: land access, climate change, racial equity, wate...

NASFAA's Off the Cuff Podcast

279 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 80 ratings
Hosted by NASFAA staff, this weekly podcast offers an unscripted view of hot financial aid and higher education-related topics. Justin Draeger and co-hosts will discuss what's happening inside the ...

PolicyCast

251 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 78 ratings
Our hosts speak with leading experts in public policy, media, and international affairs about their experiences confronting the world's most pressing public problems.

Off-Nominal

163 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 72 ratings
Two friends, two beers, and a casual conversation about space. Landing monthly in your podcast feed.

Rethinking Palestine

47 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 69 ratings
Rethinking Palestine is a podcast from Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, a transnational think tank that brings together Palestinians from across the globe to produce critical policy ana...

None Of The Above

121 episodes - Latest episode: 20 days ago - ★★★★★ - 64 ratings
As the United States confronts an ever-changing set of international challenges, our foreign policy leaders continue to offer the same old answers. But what are the alternatives? In None Of The Abo...

Party Politics

299 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 61 ratings
Party Politics is currently on hiatus. It will return in September 2024. Overwhelmed by the political news cycle every week? We get it — that’s why we’re ‘keeping the fun but losing all the drama...

Ways & Means

79 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 61 ratings
Ways and Means features bright ideas for how to improve human society. The show is produced by the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

Infill: A YIMBY Podcast

128 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
Audio selections from YIMBY Action. Interviews, panel discussions, speeches and more, including round-table discussions on local politics and urban policy with folks across the US in the pro-housin...

Fault Lines

371 episodes - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Fault Lines, the National Security Institute’s flagship podcast, gets you quickly up to speed, three-times-a-week, on the national security and foreign policy debates shaking up America. Our regu...

Out of Order

112 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Out of Order is a German Marshall Fund podcast about how our world was, is, and will be ordered. From the way the pandemic is shaping geopolitics; to the dark side of tech for democracy; to the p...

Diplomatic Immunity

74 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 30 ratings
Diplomatic Immunity: Frank and candid conversations about diplomacy and foreign affairs Diplomatic Immunity is a podcast from the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. We ...

Thinkin' on Lincoln

63 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
A political podcast that won’t make you hate your neighbor. Curtis and Ryan unpack cultural and political issues facing Oklahoma and the nation with a light-hearted air. Brought to you by The Oklah...

Electrify This!

36 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Electrify This! explores the movement to electrify everything as a strategy to decarbonize and revitalize all sectors of our economy. Featuring diverse experts, the show examines the most important...

The International Security Podcast

19 episodes - Latest episode: 27 days ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratings
Leading scholars provide insight on urgent policy debates. Jeff Friedman of Dartmouth College interviews contributors to the premiere peer-reviewed journal of security studies. They offer sophistic...

Engage Arizona

93 episodes - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Center for Arizona Policy (CAP) discusses politics and social issues with special guests. From Pro-Life to Pro-Marriage, Parents' Choice, and Parental Rights, no Public Policy topic is off-limits....

Health Affairs This Week

172 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
Health Affairs This Week places listeners at the center of health policy’s proverbial water cooler. Join editors from Health Affairs, the leading journal of health policy research, and special gues...

Tooth Talk

59 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
Discussing everything from molars to Medicaid, bicuspids to bipartisanship, and canines to the campaign trail, Tooth Talk covers the most important dental news in Washington, D.C. and around the co...

Next Round

343 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Pacific Research Institute interviews various scholars on topics of the day.