Politics Society & Culture Podcasts

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

225 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6.1K ratings
A weekly interview series from Russell Brand that examines what's beneath the surface—of the people we admire, the ideas that define our time, and the history we’re told. Speaking with guests from ...

In The Thick

689 episodes - Latest episode: 10 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...

GLoP Culture

303 episodes - Latest episode: 19 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Jonah Goldberg, Ricochet's Rob Long, and Commentary's John Podhoretz discuss culture and politics.

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

544 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Lauren Chen dives into stories not covered anywhere else at the intersection of culture and politics.

I Don't Speak German

185 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 951 ratings
Daniel Harper is a researcher who goes where few others can bear to go: he listens to what the reactionaries - from the IDW to the modern day Nazis - say to each other in *their* safe spaces! In t...

What It Takes®

217 episodes - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★★ - 913 ratings
Revealing, intimate conversations with visionaries and leaders in the arts, science, technology, public service, sports and business. These engaging personal stories are drawn from interviews with ...

Inside the Hive by Vanity Fair

431 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★ - 891 ratings
Each week, Vanity Fair special correspondent Brian Stelter examines the powerful forces driving today’s news and politics. Through incisive conversations with newsmakers, journalists, polit...

Feminist Current

91 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 414 ratings
Canada's leading feminist website.

Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

436 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 342 ratings
Just the Right Book is a podcast hosted by Roxanne Coady, owner of famous independent bookstore R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT, that will help you discover new and note-worthy books in all g...

Texas Take

387 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 337 ratings
Go behind the headlines for a look at what's really going on at the Texas Capitol and in Washington with the state's #1 political podcast: Texas Take. Join the conversation featuring Scott Braddock...

Jim Hightower's Lowdown

458 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 303 ratings
News and shows about the progressive, democratic populist rebellion from former Texas Ag Commissioner and NYT best-selling author Jim Hightower.

Philosophy For Our Times

441 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★ - 260 ratings
Philosophy for our Times is a free philosophy podcast bringing you the latest talks and debates from the world’s leading thinkers. We host weekly episodes on today’s biggest ideas in news, s...

So Many Damn Books

253 episodes - Latest episode: 18 days ago - ★★★★★ - 254 ratings
A blessing, a curse, a podcast, since 2014. Christopher (@cdhermelin) invites folks to the Damn Library to talk about reading, literature, publishing, and trying to make it through the never-dwindl...

How We Win

212 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 245 ratings
The Official Podcast of the Persistence! For the past 4 years, we’ve been making history in critical elections all over the country, and last year we made history again by expanding our majority in...

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...

Escape From Plan A

462 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 199 ratings
Escape From Plan A Podcast We also run an online magazine, Plan A. Visit us at the link below!

Woke Societies's Podcast

278 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 188 ratings
Waking up the people of this world with full disclosure and truth and to break the illusion that has been pulled over our eyes.

Other Life

244 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★ - 170 ratings
I study the lives of the wildest writers who ever lived.

Generation Zed Podcast

704 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 168 ratings
Discussing all things Politics, science, entertainment, etc. For all generations past and present!

Average Jos Media

188 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 159 ratings
This is a long sit down talk formatted podcast with friends, The Average JoBu features friends/guest regularly with a variety of topics. Every day menial things that you have an opinion about, but...

I Learned Nothing

165 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★ - 157 ratings
Ben explains philosophical concepts to Pat in an attempt to get him to learn something.

High Noon

145 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 148 ratings
High Noon is an intellectual download featuring conversations that make possible a free society. The podcast features interesting thinkers from all parts of the political spectrum to discuss the m...

Ruined Heroes

397 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★ - 147 ratings
A weekly and self produced podcast wherein the three of us irreverently discuss a topic of societal renown.

For the Girls!

128 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 136 ratings
The gay Diva Podcast is here! Queer people are obsessed with iconic female performers, so hosts Jason Black & Nick Westrate set out to talk to every queer obsessed with a queen. The work of the gre...

All Out War

184 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 114 ratings
This is a podcast dedicated to everything related to theology, culture, and politics.

ACCESS: A Podcast About Abortion

35 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 102 ratings
Abortion is popular, and common. So why are people afraid to talk about it? How much more might you understand about abortion access in the U.S. if talking about it wasn’t taboo? On ACCESS, our go...

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...

Getting to the Root of it with Venus Roots

38 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 84 ratings
join niki franco (venus roots), a community organizer, writer, and facilitator of spaces for collective study, as she leans into conversations of radical truth-telling with artists, theorists, and ...

Brain Boggled

134 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★ - 82 ratings
On Brain Boggled, Bobby, Brent and Jack discuss the absurdities of life and dive deep into the weirdest, wildest stuff they can find on the internet. From the Mandela Effect, to Time Dilation, to e...

What's Left of the South

145 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 77 ratings
(Formerly dotprole) Southern working-class podcast from a leftist perspective. We talk about current issues affecting Southerners, Southern history, and we make fun of Yankees! Find us at https://...