The Rachel Maddow Show - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Well-researched, excellently delivered analysis of the day’s headlines. If you do nothing more than listen to TRMS daily, you’ll be better-informed than 95% of your fellow Americans. Maddow is whip-smart, well-educated, insightful, empathetic, clever. Absolutely the best in the biz.

Thank you for sharing this show on podcasts Rachel, it is one way I stay connected to home after 7 years of living abroad. Such good content, such care taken to present the important stories you bring us. 10/10

There is no other podcast I listen to that gives me both context (historical, political, psychological et al) and the vital facts I need to understand an issue or player in our complicated world

Commentary that is entertaining, profoundly eye opening and consistently provocative

I’m a devoted fan of her show, her podcasts and her books

Rachel Does her homework and connects the dots. She gives you the background and foundation of the issues. Her methodology is to lay a foundation, lay out the dots over this solid foundation, tie the dots together, and then start knitting the facts together to form a fabric that is solid solid fact—not presumption. Her show is not a series of spurious headlines. Rachel’s show is class for the day with Rachel as educator.

This was my go to podcast every morning. There is simply no one better at longform journalism than she is. I always wished that she would be more impartial as a journalist and her declarations of being a liberal on air always seem to taint her impartiality and credibility in my opinion.But now I think she’s actually gone too far. She’s actively fundraising for the Democratic Party with commercials on her podcast clearly endorsed by her. While I totally agree with her political views, I need my journalists to be impartial during a broadcast and she has completely abandoned any pretense of doing so.

I have small kids and unfortunately most nights I miss the beginning half of her show because I'm putting them to bed. So, I love being able to download this show the next day and listen to all of it on my drive into work. I feel smarter when I leave my car. Rachel has a knack for comparing past events to our current political news and putting it all in perspective. While these guest hosts are OK, they’re not the reason I watch MSNBC. If Rachel Maddow is no longer on this, I will not be subscribing and only downloading the Monday episodes.