Politics Podcasts

Pod Save America

424 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 61.7K 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...

Stay Tuned with Preet

248 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 29K ratings
Join former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara as he breaks down legal topics in the news and engages thought leaders in a podcast about power, policy, and justice.

Bag Man

22 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 24.9K ratings
Is it possible for an American Vice President to carry out a criminal enterprise inside the White House and have nobody remember? To have one of the most brazen political bribery scandals i...

Lovett or Leave It

164 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 20K 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

185 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 18K 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...

Common Sense with Dan Carlin

20 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8.1K 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...

Pod Save the People

174 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 7K 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...

With Friends Like These

175 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 6K ratings
New Season: “With Friends Like These: Converts”. Humans tend not to change their minds, so we’re going to see what we can learn from looking at people that have changed their minds about really big...

Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill

173 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5.2K ratings
The people behind The Intercept’s fearless reporting and incisive commentary—Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald, Betsy Reed and others—discuss the crucial issues of our time: national security, civil ...

Hysteria

107 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5.1K ratings
Each week, political commentator and comedy writer Erin Ryan is joined by a bicoastal squad of funny, opinionated women to talk through everything from reproductive rights to romcoms. They break do...

Can He Do That?

205 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★ - 3.9K ratings
“Can He Do That?” is The Washington Post’s politics podcast, exploring the powers and limitations of the American presidency, and what happens when they're tested. Led by host Allison Michaels, eac...

Mueller, She Wrote

270 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.8K ratings
Three women unraveling the mysteries of the Mueller investigation each week as alt government employee and anonymous host, AG simplifies the absurd amount of Trump Russia news and wraps it up into ...

America Dissected: Coronavirus

46 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.2K ratings
The coronavirus is now a global pandemic. How did we get here? What went wrong? What do we do about it now? In season 2, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a physician and former city health commissioner, will ke...

Deadline: White House

149 episodes - Latest episode: about 15 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 3.1K ratings
Drawing on years of experience as communications chief for President George W. Bush and senior advisor for the McCain-Palin campaign, Nicolle Wallace provides political insight and clarity ...

All In with Chris Hayes

143 episodes - Latest episode: about 11 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 3K 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 Meet the Press

36 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★ - 2.5K ratings
NBC News' Meet the Press is the longest-running television show in history, celebrating its 70th anniversary. If it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press with Chuck Todd.

American Elections: Wicked Game

62 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratings
On February 10th, 1796, Vice President John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail, lamenting the state of discourse in the country. The election was nearing—and becoming heated. Newspapers scream...

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

174 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America.

Talking Feds

92 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.5K ratings
TALKING FEDS is a roundtable discussion that brings together prominent former government officials, journalists, and special guests for a dynamic and in-depth analysis of the most pressing ...

Worldly

164 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★ - 1.4K ratings
We live in a confusing time, bombarded every day with news from around the world that can be hard to follow, or fully understand. Let Worldly be your guide. Every Thursday, senior writer Zack Beauc...

Impeachment, Explained

17 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
We are living through history, but keeping up with the unending stream of revelations, statements, tweets, and disputes is already difficult enough. If we’re going to understand this inquiry–and th...

Worst Year Ever

62 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
2020 isn't going to be fun for anybody, left, right, or center. What many call the Most Important Election of Our Lifetime is going to be exhausting, ugly, angry, and probably at least a little rac...

This Week with George Stephanopoulos

36 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★ - 1K ratings
ABC News' Sunday morning discussion program, featuring newsmaker interviews, panel discussions and debates on a wide range of global issues and commentary. Brought to you by George Stephanopoulos a...

Fox News Sunday Audio Podcast

30 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★ - 1K ratings
From the policy debates to the political fights, today's top newsmakers make sure they sit down with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, which airs weekly on Fox News Channel.

Ordered Liberty

158 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 977 ratings
In a world where religion is more potent than culture, and culture is more potent than politics, David French and Alexandra DeSanctis are your guides to the debates and issues that matter most.

Rubicon: The Impeachment of Donald Trump

14 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 957 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...

Mueller Report Audio

54 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 956 ratings
Delivering the Mueller Report, in audiobook-style format, without political commentary. Due to the wide public interest in the "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Pre...

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

121 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 797 ratings
Any society that allows itself to become radically unequal eventually collapses into an uprising or a police state—or both. Join venture capitalist Nick Hanauer and some of the world’s leading econ...

Campaign HQ with David Plouffe

54 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 703 ratings
David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s campaign manager, dives deep into the strategy of winning the White House. Plouffe’s guests are campaign insiders, state directors, digital experts, and othe...

Krassencast: Defending What's Left

23 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★ - 658 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...