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 26 Jul 2025

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07/26/2025

Average data

Episodes: 355

Frequency: every 12 days

Duration: 00:44:00

Top 5 authors

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

2. Cumulus Podcast Network (2 shows)

3. WMAL | Cumulus Media Washington (2 shows)

4. CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies (2 shows)

5. The DSR Network (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. Libsyn (10 shows)

3. Buzzsprout (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strict Scrutiny	Strict Scrutiny	Government	444	Audioboom	63
2	The Tara Palmeri Show	Tara Palmeri	Government	319	Megaphone	63
3	5-4	Prologue Projects	Government	334	RedCircle	58
4	Fiasco	Pushkin Industries	Government	44	Omny Studio	69
5	The Find Out Podcast	Find Out Media & Studio71	Government	156	Megaphone	48
6	The Lawfare Podcast	The Lawfare Institute	Government	2000	Acast	53
7	Red Eye Radio	Cumulus Podcast Network	Government	1968	Megaphone	53
8	Deep State Radio	The DSR Network	Government	2000	Megaphone	49
9	The Chris Plante Show	WMAL \| Cumulus Podcast Network \| Cumulus Media Washington	Government	2762	Megaphone	38
10	What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law	Roman Mars	Government	101	Simplecast	32
11	Sekulow	Jay Sekulow	Government	31	Libsyn	38
12	Sane(ish) with Jo Carducci	The Siren Network	Government	262	Megaphone	53
13	The Oath and The Office	Corey Brettschneider and John Fugelsang	Government	92	Spreaker	54
14	Civics 101	NHPR	Government	388	Megaphone	53
15	Global Security Briefing	The Royal United Services Institute	Government	100	Libsyn	53
16	Macroaggressions	Charlie Robinson	Government	922	RSS.com	42
17	Optimist Economy	Kathryn Anne Edwards and Robin Rauzi	Government	70	PRX	83
18	Pekingology	Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	152	Megaphone	43
19	Cato Daily Podcast	Cato Institute	News	2000	Acast	38
20	Anne Hidalgo - Paris en Commun	Paris en Commun	Government	11	Soundcloud	43
21	Capitalisn't	University of Chicago Podcast Network	Government	255	Simplecast	73
22	American Potential	American Potential	News	479	Podbean	68
23	The Strong Towns Podcast	Strong Towns	Government	600	Podbean	42
24	Irregular Warfare Podcast	Irregular Warfare Initiative	Government	168	Podbean	31
25	Law and Chaos	Liz Dye; Andrew Torrez	Government	275	Libsyn	58
26	Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer	Civic Ventures	News	459	Megaphone	58
27	Divided Argument	Will Baude & Dan Epps	Government	140	Unknown	63
28	The John Phillips Show	790 KABC Radio \| Cumulus Los Angeles	Government	119	Omny Studio	49
29	The Vince Coglianese Show	WMAL \| Cumulus Media Washington	Government	100	Omny Studio	38
30	La Mesa - City of San Antonio	City of San Antonio	Government	7	Buzzsprout	32
31	The Trade Guys	CSIS \| Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	374	Megaphone	43
32	The Fact Hunter	Delmarva Studios	Government	1000	Spreaker	43
33	The Tristan Snell Show	Audiocrafty/Bluewave	Government	86	RedCircle	74
34	The AI Policy Podcast	Center for Strategic and International Studies	News	115	Megaphone	43
35	DSR's Words Matter	The DSR Network	Government	473	Megaphone	49
36	The Truth of the Matter	CSIS \| Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	372	Megaphone	49
37	U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments	Oyez	Government & Organizations	70	Unknown	27
38	Behind The Scenes With Sheriff Jason Ard	Sheriff Jason Ard	Government	35	Buzzsprout	68
39	NatSec Matters Details temporarily unavailable	Beacon Global Strategies LLC	Government	154	Libsyn	69
40	Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture	The Heritage Foundation	Government	276	Spotify for Podcasters	28
41	The Steve Hilton Show	Steve Hilton Show	Government	186	Spotify for Podcasters	33
42	Open Mike: A Look Inside the County of San Mateo	County of San Mateo	Government	7	Buzzsprout	32
43	State of Gold	Jon Slavet \| California Politics	Government	108	Buzzsprout	63
44	The Just Security Podcast	Just Security	Government	157	Buzzsprout	47
45	The Proceedings Podcast	U.S. Naval Institute	Government	500	Soundcloud	49
46	A Matter of Degrees	Dr. Leah Stokes, Dr. Katharine Wilkinson	Government	55	Libsyn	58
47	Scaling Laws	Lawfare & University of Texas Law School	Government	259	Acast	69
48	Here I Am With Shai Davidai	Shai Davidai	Religion & Spirituality	104	RSS.com	57
49	Broken Ground	Southern Environmental Law Center	Government	48	Buzzsprout	68
50	The Langley Files: CIA's Podcast	Central Intelligence Agency	Government	26	Transistor	52
51	The Doctor is IN from the Indiana Department of Health	The Indiana Department of Health	Government	19	RSS.com	47
52	Intelligence Matters	CBS News	Government	291	WideOrbit	43
53	MichMash Politics	WDET FM	Government	381	Unknown	43
54	Show Archives – Armed American Radio \|	Armed American Radio	Government	302	Blubrry Podcasting	33
55	No es el fin del mundo	El Orden Mundial	Government	317	Megaphone	63
56	The Merge	The Merge	Government	69	Spotify for Podcasters	38
57	Not Another Politics Podcast	University of Chicago Podcast Network	Government	165	Simplecast	52
58	Bowman and Bush	Zeteo	Government	4	Substack	59
59	Country First Conversations	Adam Kinzinger	Government	20	Spotify for Podcasters	N/A
60	The Debrief with Jon Becker	Jon Becker	Government	101	Buzzsprout	58
61	Ones Ready	Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras	Government	938	Buzzsprout	63
62	Outside the Secret Service Podcast	OTSecretService	Government	39	Podbean	37
63	The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast	Courage.Media	Government	18	Acast	48
64	America At Night with McGraw Milhaven	Cumulus Podcast Network	Government	939	Megaphone	38
65	Pineland Underground	USAJFKSWCS, Ash Holzmann, Derek Riley, Jason Gambardella	Government	91	Simplecast	53
66	Into Africa	CSIS \| Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	204	Megaphone	53
68	O'Connor & Company	WMAL \| Cumulus Media Washington	Government	100	Omny Studio	53
69	Supreme Court Oral Arguments	scotusstats.com	Government	495	Unknown	52
70	Landslide	Landslide	Government	114	Castos	33
71	You Might Be Right	Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at University of Tennessee	Government	64	Megaphone	73
72	AuthentiCity FM \| Real Stories. Bold Ideas. Better Communities.	AuthentiCity FM	Government	48	Spotify for Podcasters	42
73	The Fascism Barometer	Ejeris Dixon	Government	39	Simplecast	73
74	The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton	Federal News Network \| Hubbard Radio	Government	500	ART19	53
75	The World of Intelligence	Sean Corbett AVM (Retd)	Technology	136	Unknown	37
76	National Park Service Oral History	National Park Service Oral History	Government	16	Soundcloud	49
78	Lesser Known Operators	Nicholas Allen	Government	133	Simplecast	63
79	Inside the FBI Details temporarily unavailable	Official FBI	Government	122	N/A	N/A
80	The LOGSTAT	Army Sustainment Professional Bulletin	Government & Organizations	74	Unknown	43
81	Babel: Translating the Middle East	Center for Strategic and International Studies	Government	284	Megaphone	69
82	Public Defenseless	Hunter Parnell	Government	543	Libsyn	58
83	Executive Functions Chat	Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith	Government	71	Substack	43
84	It's Just Politics	Michigan Public	Government	100	Omny Studio	53
85	The Kevin Roberts Show with Larry O’Connor	The Kevin Roberts Show with Larry O’Connor	Government	100	Omny Studio	32
86	Congressional Dish	Jennifer Briney	Government	353	Libsyn	68
87	Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast	The Overhead Wire	Government	832	Libsyn	27
88	Baby Boom! Lawyered	Imani Gandy - Rewire News Group, Imani Gandy	Government	326	Simplecast	73
89	Stanford Legal	Stanford Law School	Government	216	Simplecast	59
90	In The Dark (Bigfoot, Dogmen, Aliens, All Things Supernatural)	Tracie Bush	Government	115	Spotify for Podcasters	28
91	Advancing Health	American Hospital Association	Government	730	Captivate	53
92	U.S. Army History and Heritage Podcast	U.S. Army Center of Military History	Government & Organizations	66	Unknown	27
93	PreAccident Investigation Podcast	Todd Conklin	Government & Organizations	600	Podbean	37
94	Nashville's Morning News with Dan Mandis	SuperTalk 99.7 WTN \| Cumulus Media Nashville	Government	100	Omny Studio	38
95	The Michigan DNR's Wildtalk Podcast	Michigan Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Division	Government	101	Buzzsprout	57
96	Luis Elizondo - UAP Disclosure Updates	Luis Elizondo	Government	4	Acast	48
97	Policing Matters	Police1.com	Government	578	Podbean	32
98	The Interview	BBC World Service	Government	1985	BBC	43
99	FDA Watch	FDA Watch	Government	72	Libsyn	63
100	Within the Trenches	Code 7 Podcast Network	Government	679	Libsyn	58

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