Macro analytics
Who owns the mic on each topic — measured across thousands of political podcast episodes, classified left to right and mined for what each side is actually talking about.
How it works
Every episode is transcribed word for word, then classified by AI into one of five stances — Far Left, Left-leaning, Centrist, Right-leaning, or Far Right — based on that episode's own content rather than a fixed label on the show. Episodes are grouped into left (Far Left plus Left-leaning), center, and right; topics are mined from the analyzed quotes. The Index aggregates these across rolling timeframes by air date. Figures update continuously as new episodes are processed and are current as of July 2026.
What the data shows
More on the method in the FAQ.
2025-02-27 — 2026-10-23
How the analyzed corpus splits left to right, and the headlines beneath it.
Share of analyzed quotes by the political stance of the source episode. The corpus tilts right — a reflection of which shows publish most, not an editorial choice.
Coverage asymmetry
90%
37 of 41 topics are covered lopsidedly
Freshness
42 / 276
episodes analyzed in the last 24h / 7d
Most one-sided topic
Drug policy
Right +89
Most balanced topic
Voting rights
Shared
Biggest mover
Corporate accountability
+108%
Biggest shifts in topic coverage vs. the prior four weeks.
Surging
Fading
Trends over time · by air date
Topic volume and partisan balance over time, bucketed by episode air date (not processing time).
How much each side of the spectrum talks about each topic. Click a row for the full five-point split.
Bars show each topic's share of quotes by the political stance of the podcast episode. "Left" = Far Left + Left-leaning, "Right" = Right-leaning + Far Right. Lean is the net right-minus-left share of attention. Topics below a minimum volume in the selected window are omitted.
Leaderboards
Every show with 30+ analyzed episodes, placed by its mean episode stance. Bubble size is volume.
Who leads · Political polarization
Lean is the mean of each episode's stance on a −2 (Far Left) … +2 (Far Right) scale. Derived from episode stance because per-show stance is unlabeled in the source data.
Storylines
Topic pairs that keep showing up in the same episode — the threads the discourse ties together.
Demand & voices
Listener demand for briefings, and how each side actually phrases the fight.
What listeners ask for
Topics users request as on-demand briefings. Directional — a small sample.
In their words · by side
Auto-selected sample lines — machine-picked, not editor-curated.
"The message from these people is that, you know, it's okay to harm children. If you have a good sob story, if you feel like you had a reason to do it, it's okay to harm children."
Left-leaning · Childcare accessibility
"Well, the answer is we know why this happened because terrible parenting has horrifying fruit. Okay, that's why this happened."
Right-leaning · Childcare accessibility
"At one point, at least, pointed to the amounts of money he's been able to reclaim for consumers as Texas Attorney General, leaning into culture war stuff, talking about suing the Texas doctors who are transitioning our kids."
Left-leaning · Consumer protection
"His policies will raise the cost of every gallon of gasoline, number one, raise your utility rates, cause you $20,000 for a Medicare for all plan that takes away private insurance from individuals. It is a disaster."
Right-leaning · Consumer protection
"Well, in the first place, he has a very well-tailored line, I have to admit, that combines the two buzziest issues that I mentioned earlier into one line, which is, we have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis."
Left-leaning · Corporate accountability
"You know, when I go through this radicalized DSA agenda, you know, what do they want to do? They want, as part of it, this, you know, public ownership of most corporations."
Right-leaning · Corporate accountability
"And frankly, if anyone is entitled to a recovery of Jeffrey Epstein's estate, it's the survivors. The Epstein survivors who were targeted and trafficked here in New Mexico and beyond."
Left-leaning · Criminal justice
"I'm sorry, but if you look at images of children in sex acts, you're a child abuser. You're a child sexual abuser, a child sexual abuse pervert."
Right-leaning · Criminal justice