Politics Podcasts

Common Sense with Dan Carlin

19 episodes - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7.3K 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...

America Dissected with Abdul El-Sayed

11 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.5K ratings
What really is up with anti-vaxxers? Can crystals actually heal you? Is loneliness making us sick? And who does our healthcare system really serve? In a new ten-part series from Crooked Media call...

Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia

95 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
John Dickerson of Slate’s Political Gabfest revisits a moment from the American carnival of politics. Hear about the grand speeches, emergency strategies, baby kissing, and backstabbing that make e...

Rubicon: The Impeachment of Donald Trump

14 episodes - Latest episode: 22 days ago - ★★★★★ - 849 ratings
The impeachment of Donald Trump is one of the biggest political stories of our lifetimes. It's a test of whether accountability, election integrity, and the rules of our democracy can withstand the...

Krassencast: Defending What's Left

23 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★ - 653 ratings
The KrassenCast: Defending What's Left is a project from Brian and Ed Krassenstein. Together, they have been fighting to expose the obvious and sustained corruption from the President Trump adminis...

Caught

13 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 619 ratings
All kids make dumb mistakes. But depending on your zip code, race or just bad luck, those mistakes can have a lasting impact. Mass incarceration starts young. In Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justi...

Make No Law: The First Amendment Podcast

12 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 506 ratings
Ken White explores the background of important First Amendment cases and the personalities and history that led to them. Join Ken, First Amendment litigator and law blogger at Popehat.com, as he i...

Bill Moyers Journal (Audio) | PBS

153 episodes - Latest episode: almost 10 years ago - ★★★★★ - 350 ratings
Veteran journalist Bill Moyers returns to PBS with Bill Moyers Journal, a weekly program of interviews and news analysis on a wide range of subjects, including politics, arts and culture, the media...

Know Your Enemy

15 episodes - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 348 ratings
A leftist's guide to the conservative movement, one podcast episode at a time, with co-hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell.

Unrelatable

34 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 287 ratings
Abdul Dremali and Collin Duddy are complete opposites trying to find some common ground.

Modern Ruhles with Stephanie Ruhle: Compelling Conversations in Culturally Complicated Times

12 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 251 ratings
In Modern Ruhles, MSNBC anchor and NBC News correspondent Stephanie Ruhle moderates thoughtful, unflinching conversations around some of the most hot-button issues facing our culture today. In ea...

Speak Out with Tim Wise

59 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 239 ratings
Speak Out with Tim Wise is an informative and entertaining podcast aimed at promoting multiracial democracy and justice in dangerous times. The show features the biting, factual, and humorous comme...

Displaced

46 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★ - 239 ratings
The world is facing the largest displacement crisis since WWII as a number of humanitarian emergencies rage on. Grant Gordon and Ravi Gurumurthy from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) have i...

Divided States of Women

11 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 222 ratings
Too often, women are thought of as a monolithic bloc, and they were often discussed that way throughout the 2016 election. But women are in fact divided on major issues. Liz Plank (a progressive) a...

Late Nite Last Week®

73 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 160 ratings
Best Of Late Night Comedy · Principled Political Analysis · Bill Maher · Samantha Bee · Colin Jost · Michael Che · James Corden · Stephen Colbert · Jimmy Fallon · Seth Meyers · Jimmy Kimmel · Trevo...

Indivisible

66 episodes - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★ - 133 ratings
Indivisible is public radio’s national conversation about America in a time of change.

Sovereign Man

100 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 117 ratings
Personal liberty is deteriorating, the economy is on life support and can flat line any day now, governments around the world are getting crushed by debt, and it’s all getting worse at an exponenti...

Bill Moyers Journal (Video) | PBS

330 episodes - Latest episode: over 9 years ago - ★★★★★ - 113 ratings
Veteran journalist Bill Moyers returns to PBS with Bill Moyers Journal, a weekly program of interviews and news analysis on a wide range of subjects, including politics, arts and culture, the media...

Russia, If You're Listening

62 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 107 ratings
The Russian campaign to meddle in the 2016 US Election was only part of President Vladimir Putin's big plan. Season 3 of Russia, If You're Listening looks at where the scheme ...

Brave New Words

7 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 103 ratings
Brave New Words takes listeners on a journey around the globe with renowned communications researcher and campaign advisor Anat Shenker-Osorio as she unpacks real-world narrative shifts that led to...

Beltway Banthas: Star Wars, Politics & More

131 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Beltway Banthas is a bi-weekly Star Wars podcast about the intersection of fandom and politics. For hosts Stephen Kent & Swara Salih, one of those things is politics. Star Wars draws from our world...

Nationalist Review

1 episode - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 91 ratings
Weekly podcast about American nationalism, traditionalism, and alternative right-wing politics. Hosted by James Allsup & Nick Fuentes.Follow us on Twitter:www.twitter.com/nickjfuenteswww.twitter.co...

Modern Day Atheism with Jimmy Snow

20 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 82 ratings
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Andrew Yang 100%

4 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 79 ratings
All 100% Andrew Yang, all the time. Andrew Yang is an American 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, entrepreneur, lawyer, and philanthropist. He is the founder of Venture for America, a nonprofi...

TULSI NOW

34 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
Meet Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, the first female combat veteran ever to run for the presidency, and the first female combat veteran ever elected to Congress, along with Tammy Duckworth.Gabbard ha...

Extremely Offline

20 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 73 ratings
It's time to admit it: when we argue online, we’re not actually trying to persuade anyone. We’re not even trying to ‘win’ a debate. We’re trying to “dunk” on our rivals, “own” our political enemies...

Don't Let It Go

301 episodes - Latest episode: 27 days ago - ★★★★★ - 71 ratings
Amy is a radical for capitalism and free speech, discussing News/Politics/Law/Culture

YourVoice™ America

286 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 68 ratings
Listened to by millions monthly, this exciting 1 hour program hosted by Mr. Bill Mitchell features brilliant co-hosts and famous special guests designed to #IncreaseYourVoice and Make America Great...

70 Million

24 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 68 ratings
This award-winning podcast documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards. Reporters travel around the country and hear from people directly impacted by their encounter wi...

Force of Law

9 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 68 ratings
After police killed an unarmed black man in his grandparents' backyard, activists set out to change California law, hoping to make it easier to prosecute police who kill. That's sparked a heated de...