Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - Government

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in USA. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 06 août 2025

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08/06/2025

Average data

Episodes: 324

Frequency: every 15 days

Duration: 00:45:16

Top 5 authors

1. Center for Strategic and International Studies (3 shows)

2. Cumulus Podcast Network (2 shows)

3. University of Chicago Podcast Network (2 shows)

4. WMAL | Cumulus Media Washington (2 shows)

5. The DSR Network (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (19 shows)

2. Simplecast (10 shows)

3. Buzzsprout (10 shows)

4. Libsyn (9 shows)

5. Podbean (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strict Scrutiny	Strict Scrutiny	Government	436	Audioboom	63
2	The Tara Palmeri Show	Tara Palmeri	Government	308	Megaphone	63
3	5-4	Prologue Projects	Government	328	RedCircle	58
4	The Lawfare Podcast	The Lawfare Institute	Government	2000	Acast	53
5	Red Eye Radio	Cumulus Podcast Network	Government	1908	Megaphone	53
6	The Chris Plante Show	WMAL \| Cumulus Podcast Network \| Cumulus Media Washington	Government	2001	Megaphone	43
7	Fiasco	Pushkin Industries	Government	44	Omny Studio	69
8	The Find Out Podcast	Find Out Media & Studio71	Government	144	Megaphone	48
9	Deep State Radio	The DSR Network	Government	2000	Megaphone	49
10	Sekulow	Jay Sekulow	Government	31	Libsyn	38
11	What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law	Roman Mars	Government	98	Simplecast	32
12	Optimist Economy	Kathryn Anne Edwards and Robin Rauzi	Government	68	PRX	83
13	The Strong Towns Podcast	Strong Towns	Government	600	Podbean	42
14	Right of Way	Thomas Hochman, Pavan Venkatakrishnan	Government	10	Simplecast	63
15	Civics 101	NHPR	Government	380	Megaphone	53
16	Anne Hidalgo - Paris en Commun	Paris en Commun	Government	11	Soundcloud	43
17	Divided Argument	Will Baude & Dan Epps	Government	139	Unknown	63
18	The Oath and The Office	Two Squared Media Productions	Government	85	Spreaker	54
19	The Tristan Snell Show	Audiocrafty/Bluewave	Government	86	RedCircle	74
20	Global Security Briefing	The Royal United Services Institute	Government	100	Libsyn	53
21	Law and Chaos	Liz Dye; Andrew Torrez	Government	264	Libsyn	58
22	The Just Security Podcast	Just Security	Government	153	Buzzsprout	47
23	Macroaggressions	Charlie Robinson	Government	903	RSS.com	42
24	Pekingology	Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	149	Megaphone	43
25	Behind The Scenes With Sheriff Jason Ard	Sheriff Jason Ard	Government	35	Buzzsprout	68
26	The John Phillips Show	790 KABC Radio \| Cumulus Los Angeles	Government	119	Omny Studio	49
27	Capitalisn't	University of Chicago Podcast Network	Government	252	Simplecast	73
28	Sane(ish) with Jo Carducci	The Siren Network	Government	262	Megaphone	53
29	Irregular Warfare Podcast	Irregular Warfare Initiative	Government	166	Podbean	31
30	NatSec Matters Details temporarily unavailable	Beacon Global Strategies LLC	Government	154	Libsyn	69
31	Cato Daily Podcast	Cato Institute	News	2000	Acast	38
32	The Fact Hunter	Delmarva Studios	Government	1000	Spreaker	43
33	The Langley Files: CIA's Podcast	Central Intelligence Agency	Government	26	Transistor	52
34	American Potential	American Potential	News	467	Podbean	68
35	Battle of the Branches	Will Baude	Government	7	Simplecast	63
36	The AI Policy Podcast	Center for Strategic and International Studies	News	109	Megaphone	43
37	Sergeant Major's Situation Report with John Gillette	Spreely Media	Government	55	ART19	38
38	Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer	Civic Ventures	News	452	Megaphone	58
39	The Trade Guys	CSIS \| Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	368	Megaphone	43
40	The Proceedings Podcast	U.S. Naval Institute	Government	500	Soundcloud	49
41	The Fascism Barometer	Ejeris Dixon	Government	38	Simplecast	73
42	The LOGSTAT	Army Sustainment Professional Bulletin	Government & Organizations	70	Unknown	43
43	Fifth & State	Fifth & State	Government	12	Buzzsprout	58
44	U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments	Oyez	Government & Organizations	56	Unknown	32
45	Scaling Laws	Lawfare & University of Texas Law School	Government	253	Acast	69
46	The Interview	BBC World Service	Government	1966	BBC	43
47	Outside the Secret Service Podcast	OTSecretService	Government	38	Podbean	37
48	O'Connor & Company	WMAL \| Cumulus Media Washington	Government	100	Omny Studio	53
49	Bowman and Bush	Zeteo	Government	4	Substack	59
50	Congressional Dish	Jennifer Briney	Government	349	Libsyn	68
51	The Debrief with Jon Becker	Jon Becker	Government	100	Buzzsprout	58
52	Books to Battles	School of Advanced Air and Space Studies	Government	47	RSS.com	58
53	The Vince Coglianese Show	WMAL \| Cumulus Media Washington	Government	100	Omny Studio	38
54	Show Archives – Armed American Radio \|	Armed American Radio	Government	302	Blubrry Podcasting	33
55	Permission To Speak Freely	Damon Leggins and Andamo McCullough	Government	247	Podbean	42
56	No Compromise	NPR	Government	10	Simplecast	73
57	The Sheriff's Mic: Cleared to Talk with Sheriff Kory Honea	Kory Honea	Government	19	Buzzsprout	48
58	The Deduction	Tax Foundation	Government	122	Buzzsprout	48
59	Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture	The Heritage Foundation	Government	276	Spotify for Podcasters	28
60	The Steve Hilton Show	Steve Hilton Show	Government	186	Spotify for Podcasters	33
61	Not Another Politics Podcast	University of Chicago Podcast Network	Government	164	Simplecast	52
62	America At Night with McGraw Milhaven	Cumulus Podcast Network	Government	908	Megaphone	38
63	ERS Money Talks Podcast	Employees Retirement System of Texas	Government	12	Buzzsprout	42
64	The Signal Sitdown	The Daily Signal	Government	96	Megaphone	49
65	Who Belongs?	Othering and Belonging Institute	Government	60	Pinecast	49
66	Too Honest for Social Media	Tim Baldermann	Government	23	Buzzsprout	32
67	Purplish	Colorado Public Radio	Government	197	PRX	59
68	Intelligence Matters	CBS News	Government	291	WideOrbit	43
69	Ones Ready	Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras	Government	913	Buzzsprout	63
70	The Truth of the Matter	CSIS \| Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	372	Megaphone	49
71	Here I Am With Shai Davidai	Shai Davidai	Religion & Spirituality	104	RSS.com	57
72	Energy Policy Now	Kleinman Center for Energy Policy	Government	234	Omny Studio	73
73	DSR's Words Matter	The DSR Network	Government	467	Megaphone	49
74	Debunking Pro-Abortion Arguments	Lydia Taylor Davis	Government	6	Libsyn	68
75	Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast	The Overhead Wire	Government	823	Libsyn	27
76	Inside the FBI Details temporarily unavailable	Official FBI	Government	120	N/A	N/A
77	Policing Matters	Police1.com	Government	572	Podbean	32
78	A Matter of Degrees	Dr. Leah Stokes, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson	Government	55	Libsyn	58
79	A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast	A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast	Government	447	Blubrry Podcasting	58
80	The Merge	The Merge	Government	66	Spotify for Podcasters	38
81	Country First Conversations	Adam Kinzinger	Government	20	Spotify for Podcasters	N/A
82	National Park Service Oral History	National Park Service Oral History	Government	16	Soundcloud	49
83	No es el fin del mundo	El Orden Mundial	Government	305	Megaphone	63
84	سقراط مع عمر الجريسي	ثمانية/ thmanyah	Government	209	Unknown	58
85	The Virginia Press Room	VPM & VPAP	Government	90	Megaphone	59
86	They Said...	Army Multimedia and Visual Information Division	Government	1	N/A	N/A
87	Luis Elizondo - UAP Disclosure Updates	Luis Elizondo	Government	4	Acast	48
88	Rethinking Palestine	Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network	Government	71	Zencastr	32
89	Mailin’ It! - The Official USPS Podcast	United States Postal Service	Government	91	Simplecast	52
90	Mexico Matters	Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	58	Megaphone	38
91	Hudson Institute Events Podcast	Hudson Institute	Government	599	Simplecast	42
92	Bold American Pod	Barstool Sports	Government & Organizations	723	Unknown	43
93	The World of Intelligence	Sean Corbett AVM (Retd)	Technology	135	Unknown	37
94	Boom! Lawyered	Rewire News Group's Jessica Mason Pieklo and Imani Gandy, Jessica Mason Pieklo - Rewire News Group, Imani Gandy - Rewire News Group	Government	315	Simplecast	73
95	It's Just Politics	Michigan Public	Government	100	Omny Studio	53
96	Into Africa	CSIS \| Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	201	Megaphone	53
97	Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center	Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center	Government & Organizations	46	Podbean	37
98	Ottawa Out Loud	Ottawa County	Government	8	Buzzsprout	68
99	GovLove - A Podcast About Local Government	Engaging Local Government Leaders (ELGL)	Government	747	Libsyn	37
100	The National Security Law Podcast	Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck	Government	246	Blubrry	32

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