Policy Podcasts

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

1,138 episodes - Latest episode: about 4 hours 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...

Plenary Session

382 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 722 ratings
A podcast on medicine, oncology, & health policy. Host: Vinay Prasad, MD MPH from University of California San Francisco. Tweet your feedback to @Plenary_Session or e-mail plenarysessionpodcast@gm...

City Journal's 10 Blocks

366 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 558 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...

Capitalisn't

183 episodes - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 475 ratings
Is capitalism the engine of destruction or the engine of prosperity? On this podcast we talk about the ways capitalism is—or more often isn’t—working in our world today. Hosted by Vanity Fair contr...

POLITICO Tech

799 episodes - Latest episode: about 21 hours ago - ★★★★ - 364 ratings
The POLITICO Tech podcast is your daily download on the disruption that technology is bringing to politics and policy. From AI and the metaverse to disinformation and microchips, we explore how tod...

Main Engine Cut Off

274 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 264 ratings
MECO is opinion and analysis of spaceflight, exploration, policy, and strategy, by Anthony Colangelo.

Reversing Climate Change

332 episodes - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 262 ratings
A podcast about the different people, technologies, and organizations that are coming together to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reverse climate change. Support this podcast: https:/...

Straight Talk MD

211 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 240 ratings
I’m a skeptic searching for the truth in all matters related to science and medicine, especially where it intersects with economics, politics, and public health. The truth is out there and we’re go...

Texas Tribune TribCast

759 episodes - Latest episode: 8 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...

The Truth of the Matter

273 episodes - Latest episode: about 16 hours ago - ★★★★ - 212 ratings
A weekly analysis of the complex policy issues driving the news.

Radical Imagination

47 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 174 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...

On Shifting Ground

974 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★ - 163 ratings
Geopolitical turmoil. A warming planet. Authoritarians on the rise. We live in a chaotic world that’s rapidly shifting around us. “On Shifting Ground with Ray Suarez” explores international fault...

70 Million

66 episodes - Latest episode: 9 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...

Israel Policy Pod

321 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★ - 118 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.

National Journal Radio

252 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 93 ratings
A deep dive on the most important policy, political, and campaign story of the week, powered by National Journal’s expert correspondents. New episodes every Monday.

UCLA Housing Voice

76 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 83 ratings
Why does the housing market seem so broken? And what can we do about it? UCLA Housing Voice tackles these questions in conversation with leading housing researchers, with each episode centered on a...

Young Farmers Podcast

70 episodes - Latest episode: 3 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...

Carbon Removal Newsroom

168 episodes - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
A panel show by Nori where guests discuss current events from the world of carbon removal. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/carbonremovalnewsroom/support

Heartland Daily Podcast

1,006 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★ - 78 ratings
The “fire hose” of all podcasts produced by The Heartland Institute, a national free-market think tank.

China in the World

240 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★ - 78 ratings
The Carnegie Endowment's China in the World podcast is a series of conversations between Director Paul Haenle and Chinese and international experts on China’s foreign policy, China’s international ...

PolicyCast

249 episodes - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 76 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

154 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 72 ratings
Two friends, two beers, and a casual conversation about space. Landing monthly in your podcast feed.

Smart Women, Smart Power

218 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★ - 64 ratings
CSIS Smart Women, Smart Power is a speaker series on women in international business and global affairs. The weekly podcast features leading women from the corporate, government, and national secur...

None Of The Above

117 episodes - Latest episode: 18 days ago - ★★★★★ - 62 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...

Rethinking Palestine

45 episodes - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★★ - 62 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...

Party Politics

298 episodes - Latest episode: about 14 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 61 ratings
Overwhelmed by the political news cycle every week? We get it — that’s why we’re ‘keeping the fun but losing all the drama’ of politics! Party Politics podcast is hosted by Brandon Rottinghaus and...

Ways & Means

78 episodes - Latest episode: 5 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.

Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ

285 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
Liberal Bill Scher and conservative Matt Lewis meet in the rancor-free DMZ to hash out the week's political events.

Ag Law in the Field

178 episodes - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 53 ratings
Welcome to Ag Law in the Field! This is the inaugural episode of a new podcast designed to discuss all things agricultural law. Tiffany Lashmet, Extension Ag Law Specialist with Texas A&M Agrilif...

Middle East Focus

274 episodes - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 48 ratings
Weekly discussion of Middle East policy, arts, and culture, featuring experts from the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C.