Apple Podcasts · United States · Oct 25, 2026

Best Society & Culture Podcasts

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

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#1

What Hundreds of Focus Groups With Trump Voters Revealed

The Ezra Klein Show · 1 h 08 min

#2

Selects: John Lennon and the FBI

Stuff You Should Know · 43 min

#3

#350 Mike Hayes - The Navy SEAL in Obama’s Situation Room During the Captain Phillips Rescue

The Shawn Ryan Show · 5 h 33 min

#4

692. What Will A.I. Do to (and for) Human Creativity?

Freakonomics Radio · 59 min

#5

Dana Bash: Trump Can’t Will His Way Out of His Problems

The Best People with Nicolle Wallace · 46 min

#6

Bigger Tent, Bigger Majority

Offline with Jon Favreau · 1 h 11 min

#7

No Coincidence, No Story!

This American Life · 1 h 00 min

#8

Episode 112

Radio Rental · 36 min

#9

Episode 2: Karat and Schtick

METRO with Sarah Koenig · 40 min

#10

98. Is Having Children Worth It?

No Stupid Questions · 37 min

#11

What This Democrat’s Surge in Texas Says About the Midterms

The Interview · 41 min

#12

#442 - "It Wasn't Russia" 27-Year CIA Agent Drops DNC Hack Bombshell | Ray McGovern

Danny Jones Podcast · 3 h 00 min

New in Society & Culture

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

The chart

Top 100 · position changes vs. yesterday.

1

The Builders

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

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2

The Ezra Klein Show

New York Times Opinion

▲ 1
3

METRO with Sarah Koenig

Serial Productions & The New York Times

▼ 1
4

Notes from the Edge

Gamut Podcast Network

▲ 1
5

The Shawn Ryan Show

Shawn Ryan

▼ 1
6

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

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7

This American Life

This American Life

▲ 1
8

Sold a Story

APM Reports

▼ 1
9

On with Kara Swisher

Vox Media

—
10

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

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11

Radio Rental

Tenderfoot TV & Audacy

▲ 1
12

Miss Understood with Rachel Uchitel

Rachel Uchitel

▲ 6
13

Happy Hour with Ina Garten

Vox Media

▼ 2
14

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

▲ 1
15

Behind the Bastards

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

▼ 2
16

Going Public With Ross Mandell

Ross Mandell

▲ 5
17

The Dr. John Delony Show

Ramsey Network

▼ 3
18

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

▲ 2
19

The Oprah Podcast

Harpo

▼ 2
20

Heavyweight

Pushkin Industries

▼ 4
21

Brooke and Connor Make A Podcast

TMG Studios

▼ 2
22

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

▲ 3
23

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

▲ 6
24

Two Girls One Ghost

Sony Music Entertainment

▲ 3
25

Chicks in the Office

Barstool Sports

▼ 3
26

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

▼ 3
27

Khloé in Wonder Land

Khloé Kardashian

▼ 1
28

The Best People with Nicolle Wallace

MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace

▲ 34
29

I've Had It

Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan

▼ 5
30

So Supernatural

Audiochuck | Crime House

▲ 3
31

Timcast IRL

Timcast Media

▲ 14
32

Otherworld

Otherworld

▼ 2
33

The Nerve with Maureen Callahan

MK Media

▼ 1
34

The Pretty Peculiar People Puzzle

Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard / Ekko Seven

▲ 2
35

What Now? with Trevor Noah

Trevor Noah

▼ 1
36

The Viall Files

Nick Viall

▼ 5
37

MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler

Wishbone Production

▼ 9
38

Next Question with Katie Couric

Katie Couric Media

▼ 3
39

All There Is with Anderson Cooper

CNN Podcasts

—
40

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

—
41

CreepCast

Wendigoon & MeatCanyon

▼ 4
42

Behind The Story Show

Jelani Gonzalez

▲ 39
43

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

▼ 1
44

The Interview

The New York Times

▲ 33
45

If Books Could Kill

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

▲ 2
46

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Higher Ground

▼ 8
47

TED Talks Daily

TED

▲ 2
48

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

▼ 5
49

An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg

NEW
50

Wild Card with Rachel Martin

NPR

▼ 4

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