Politics Podcasts

FiveThirtyEight Politics

668 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 19.5K ratings
The 538 team covers the latest in politics, tracking the issues and "game-changers" every week.

#SistersInLaw

183 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratings
Politicon brings the brilliant team of political and legal masterminds together for Politicon's #SistersInLaw. Joyce Vance, Jill Wine-Banks, Barb McQuade, and Kimberly Atkins Stohr will pull back ...

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

354 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 7.6K ratings
Every week Chris Hayes asks the big questions that keep him up at night. How do we make sense of this unprecedented moment in world history? Why is this (all) happening? This podcast starts to ans...

Morning Joe

1,304 episodes - Latest episode: about 14 hours ago - ★★★★ - 7.4K ratings
Join Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Willie Geist, for in-depth and informed discussions that help drive the day's political conversation. Top newsmakers, Washington insiders, journalists, an...

Hodgetwins

784 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5.8K ratings
The Hodgetwins known for their political humor from social media discuss current political events in the greatest country ever created. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho...

Trump, Inc.

195 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5.6K ratings
He’s the President, yet we’re still trying to answer basic questions about how his business works: What deals are happening, who they’re happening with, and if the President and his family are keep...

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

256 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4.2K ratings
Useful Idiots is an informative and irreverent politics podcast with journalist Aaron Maté and podcaster/writer Katie Halper. Episodes feature analysis of the political news of the week and exclusi...

Talking Feds

301 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.6K 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 ...

Intelligence Matters

297 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.2K ratings
Former acting Director of the CIA Michael Morell speaks with top leaders of the U.S. intelligence community as they reflect on their life, career and the critical roles they play in shaping...

The Spillover with Alex Clark

509 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3K ratings
Hear interviews from Hollywood celebrities, experts, health and wellness gurus, true crime survivors, and some of the most interesting people you’ve never heard of as they share their gripping per...

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

329 episodes - Latest episode: about 4 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 2.9K ratings
A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America. Want more Amicus? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately unlock exclusive SCOTUS analysis and wee...

Speak The Truth

361 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.3K ratings
Afghanistan & Iraq Veteran, Army Sniper, best selling author, and co-founder of e-commerce business, Googan Baits, unpacks the details on the Russo-Ukrainian War through daily podcast episodes. Joi...

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

1,142 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day 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...

In The Thick

689 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratings
Journalists tell you what you’re missing from the mainstream news. Co-hosted by award-winning journalists Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela, IN THE THICK has the conversations about r...

Tom Fitton's Weekly Update Podcast

275 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratings
The official podcast for Judicial Watch--a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation promoting transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law. Through our ed...

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

171 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a weekly nationally syndicated program produced by Democracy at Work and hosted by Richard D. Wolff. The program explores complex economic issues and empowe...

Sara Carter Show

603 episodes - Latest episode: about 4 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Sara A. Carter is an award-winning investigative reporter who is taking back the story. Each week, Carter shares her unique perspective as a mom, a wife to a wounded war hero, and a reporter who’s ...

Know Your Enemy

165 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
A leftist's guide to the conservative movement, one podcast episode at a time, with co-hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell.

Straight White American Jesus

704 episodes - Latest episode: about 6 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 1.6K ratings
An in-depth examination of the culture and politics of Christian Nationalism and Evangelicalism by two ex-evangelical ministers-turned-religion professors. If you have ever wondered what social and...

Campaign HQ with David Plouffe

87 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1.5K ratings
David Plouffe, former President Barack Obama’s campaign manager and White House Senior Advisor, takes a deep dive into key states in the crucial midterm elections - and what it will take to win the...

SGT Report’s The Propaganda Antidote

742 episodes - Latest episode: about 5 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
SGT Report’s new podcast titled ”The Propaganda Antidote”. Providing exclusive interviews and the very latest breaking REAL news & information from the world’s most trusted alternative media source...

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

540 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Joy Reid conducts one-on-one conversations with politicians and newsmakers while addressing provocative political issues both inside and outside of the beltway. Reid, who is also a best-selling aut...

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

297 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 966 ratings
Master political strategist James Carville and revered journalist Al Hunt convenes a war room each week to discuss the battle for the soul of the nation!  Join them as they gather the sharpest mind...

Government Unfiltered

159 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 963 ratings
Bringing you unfiltered public documents that deserve to be more accessible. Dan Williams, the voice behind the Mueller Report Audio podcast, reads some of the most important government documents f...

Death on the Lot

25 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 896 ratings
This season, we’re getting into 1950s Hollywood, ground zero for a cultural transformation that would upend every aspect of Americans’ lives. A movie theater in every city, a TV in every living roo...

Heritage Explains

371 episodes - Latest episode: about 19 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 783 ratings
A podcast that explains major policy issues at a 101 level. Experts from America's leading public policy organization break down major news stories and policy debates raging in culture and Congress...

Just Listen to Yourself with Kira Davis

322 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 773 ratings
"Just Listen to Yourself" with Kira Davis is the podcast that asks people, politicians and pundits to just listen to the things they say out loud and think about what they actually really mean. Wor...

Fever Dreams

124 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★ - 751 ratings
Inside the right’s push to retake power, from the conspiracy-slingers to the MAGA acolytes to the straight-up grifters. Thought the Trump era was crazy? Wait ’til you hear what they have planned ne...

Quillette Podcast

274 episodes - Latest episode: 28 days ago - ★★★★★ - 740 ratings
Quillette is where free thought lives. We are an online magazine that is politically non-partisan, but rely on reason, science, and humanism as our guiding values.

The Takeaway

1,674 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★ - 708 ratings
A fresh alternative in daily news featuring critical conversations, live reports from the field, and listener participation. The Takeaway provides a breadth and depth of world, national, and region...