News to listen to - I gave up NPR for podcasts. Send recs here.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

Podcasts are, in my opinion, the best way to get political news. The barrier to entry is so low that you don't need a big corporation behind you to set up a podcast. So there have been a lot of good progressive podcasts.

Here is a partial list of podcast recommendations to partially take the place of radio:

News: 1-2 eps a week at least:
- Pod Save America
- Pod Save The World
- Lovett or Leave It
- Josh Marshall Show
- Preet Bharara's podcast
- The Weeds (Vox; wonky but awesome)
- Slate podcasts
- Mother Jones podcast
- Today Explained (Vox)
- Crooked Conversations
- New Yorker Radio Hour
- Open Source (with Chris Lydon)
- Fresh Air (NPR)
- The New Yorker Politics and More



(Legal news, especially relevant now
- All the President's Lawyers (with Ken White/Popehat)
- Renato Mariotti's podcast
- Lawfare podcast (if you can stomach the rightwingers there)
- Rational Security, from the Lawfare people


Deeper dives:
- Ezra Klein Show
- Chris Hayes' podcast (Why is This Happening)
- Longform podcast
- The Good Fight (with Yascha Mounck)
- Guardian Audio Long Reads
- Bag Man (Rachel Maddow)
- Slow Burn (Slate)


Please add your own favorites below.
(I'll check back in on this later and edit in some of the best recs in replies.)

[EndGOPPropaganda]

1. Other notes

I don't love the NYT and their podcasts, but some might. I feel similarly about a lot of NPR shows, though Fresh Air is good.
NYT/NPR are too co-opted by the right, too bothsidesist, too afraid to admit their errors about Russia and Clinton Cash. At least for me.

[dem4decades]

2. I tried Trump Inc. today and was impressed.

[IcyPeas]

3. there are soooooo many podcasts now

I thank you for this list.

(I also listen to podcasts to help me sleep)

[MR. ELECTABLE]

4. More good ones to try

Deep State Radio (Foreign affairs-focused podcast)
Mueller, She Wrote (Mueller probe analysis)
Gaslit Nation (Trump/Russia)

[4now]

5. This is the most useful post that I have read in a long time....Thanks

[eleny]

6. My picks that I don't see in your list

The Bob Cesca Show. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Today's show is available so he's on vacation starting next week. He'll be away for the holidays until right after the 1st. But many broadcasts are still available. Bob is funny and serious at the same time. He and his various co-hosts have gotten me through some bad political days.

I listen to a number of yours - Pod Save America and the spinoffs are terrific.
I also listen to Bob Kincaid's, The Horn, now and then. He's out of West Virginia and a true blue liberal. Monologues plus convos with his friends. It's like being in his living room. Often enjoyable and lengthy at 3 hours. It's usually on Monday thru Thursday if I recall right. He's been around for decades.

Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast. Humor and politics. She worked her heart out for the past several elections. She's one of a kind.

Richard Clarke's Future State. Maybe once a month he interviews people. It's a new one and always good.

History Extra and In Our Time: History. Both excellent for a change of pace historical perspective. Topics of all kinds, world history, all eras.

Strange Days with Fernand Amandi Another true blue lib who also appears now and then on Joy Reid's show and weekly on Stephanie Miller's show for a segment.

Last but not least, SpyCast. The podcast of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. A real change of pace and always an eye opener.