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Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 20, 2026

Best Government Podcasts

The top 100 Government shows on the Apple Podcasts chart (US), plus the episodes trending right now.

Trending Government episodes

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#1

Sex Trafficking Lawsuits, Privacy Rights, and a Court That Can’t Keep Up

Strict Scrutiny · 1 h 33 min

#2

The Vindictive Prosecution of Ilhan Omar

5-4 · 49 min

#3

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, October 16

The Lawfare Podcast · 1 h 53 min

#4

Americans Feel Awful About the Economy

Optimist Economy · 48 min

#5

The Daily Blast: Trump Hits Brutal New Polling Low—and GOP Leaks Grow Truly Humiliating

The DSR Network · 22 min

#6

10-19-26 Hour 1 - JFK Wooed a Teenage White House Intern

The Chris Plante Show · 41 min

#7

10-19-26 Part One - Paris Under Siege

Red Eye Radio · 1 h 16 min

#8

10-20-26 Part One - Omar in Deep DNA

Red Eye Radio · 1 h 16 min

#9

On the Midterms and Civic Participation with 1A

Civics 101 · 36 min

#10

DSR Daily October 19: The Schemes of Susie Wiles

The DSR Network · 24 min

#11

MAGA’s scare tactics aren’t working like they did in 2024.

The Find Out Podcast · 1 h 01 min

#12

Lawfare Daily: The Coming Winter and the Latest Betrayal of Ukraine

The Lawfare Podcast · 45 min

New in Government

Brand new shows that entered this chart within two weeks of launch.

#59 newInside ChelseaInside Chelsea #60 newFrom the Source with Wade CrowfootFrom the Source with Wade Crowfoot #88 newNot My NarrativeNot My Narrative

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

Strict Scrutiny

Strict Scrutiny

▲ 1 2

Optimist Economy

Kathryn Anne Edwards and Robin Rauzi

▼ 1 3

The Jedburgh Podcast

Fran Racioppi

— 4

The DSR Network

The DSR Network

▲ 3 5

The Lawfare Podcast

The Lawfare Institute

▲ 3 6

5-4

Prologue Projects

▼ 1 7

America, Actually with Astead Herndon

Vox Media

▼ 1 8

The Chris Plante Show

WMAL | Cumulus Podcast Network | Cumulus Media Washington

▼ 4 9

Red Eye Radio

Cumulus Podcast Network

— 10

American Power

Chad Scott, Nat Towsen, Mr. Global

— 11

Disclosure

Bloomberg

▲ 1 12

Brief Recess: A Legal Podcast with Michael Foote & Mélissa Malebranche

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

▼ 1 13

You Might Be Right

Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at University of Tennessee

▲ 1 14

The Oath and The Office

Corey Brettschneider and John Fugelsang

▼ 1 15

Energy Policy Now

Kleinman Center for Energy Policy

— 16

Supreme Court Oral Arguments

scotusstats.com

▲ 6 17

Civics 101

NHPR

— 18

Macroaggressions

Charlie Robinson

▲ 2 19

What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law

Roman Mars

— 20

Sekulow

Jay Sekulow

▲ 1 21

The Asset

District Productive

▲ 19 22

The Tara Palmeri Show

Tara Palmeri

▲ 6 23

The Find Out Podcast

Find Out Media & Studio71

▲ 3 24

Pekingology

Center for Strategic and International Studies

▼ 1 25

Fiasco

Pushkin Industries

▼ 1 26

The John Phillips Show

790 KABC Radio | Cumulus Los Angeles

▼ 8 27

DSR's Words Matter

The DSR Network

▼ 11 28

Law and Chaos

Liz Dye; Andrew Torrez

▼ 3 29

Divided Argument

Will Baude & Dan Epps

▲ 5 30

NatSec Matters

Beacon Global Strategies LLC

▼ 3 31

Administrative Remedies

Gwendolyn Savitz and Marc Roark

▲ 63 32

Irregular Warfare Podcast

Irregular Warfare Initiative

▼ 3 33

The Cato Weekly Podcast

Cato Institute

▲ 3 34

The Trade Guys

CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies

▲ 18 35

Capitalisn't

University of Chicago Podcast Network

▼ 4 36

Purplish

Colorado Public Radio

▼ 6 37

Global Security Briefing

The Royal United Services Institute

▲ 9 38

The Virginia Press Room

VPM & VPAP

▲ 85 39

The Interview

BBC World Service

▲ 4 40

Politics Friday

Minnesota Public Radio

▼ 3 41

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

▼ 8 42

Mundo in the Morning - KCMO Talk Radio 95.7FM & 710 AM

KCMO Talk Radio | Cumulus Media Kansas City

▲ 8 43

Show Archives – Armed American Radio |

Armed American Radio

▼ 4 44

State of Play

Center for Strategic and International Studies

▼ 3 45

America At Night with McGraw Milhaven

Cumulus Podcast Network

▼ 13 46

The Kevin Roberts Show with Larry O’Connor

The Kevin Roberts Show with Larry O’Connor

▲ 1 47

The Debrief with Jon Becker

Jon Becker

▼ 9 48

Not Another Politics Podcast

University of Chicago Podcast Network

▲ 81 49

The DSR Daily

The DSR Network

▲ 17 50

Ones Ready

Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

▼ 1

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