Medium “Politics” tag statistics
How busy the Politics tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is high, and the tag is tough for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 799 stories from the last 5.6 days
Busier than 71% of 73 tracked tags
5% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 143 stories a day, Politics is busier than 71% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (43,288 followers per daily story) is higher than 52% of tags — more readers per story than average.
50% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 5% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 41% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 6.1 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Politics stories
| Publication | Followers | Politics stories (last 5.6d) |
|---|---|---|
| The Polis | 36K | 26 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 19 |
| Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs | 44K | 15 |
| The Geopolitical Economist | 36K | 11 |
| The Political Prism | 17K | 9 |
| The Geopolitics Report | 2.4K | 8 |
| Fourth Wave | 87K | 7 |
| MASH Focus | 53 | 6 |
| The Daily Whatever Show | 96 | 6 |
| The Haven | 52K | 6 |
Top Politics stories right now
- Ukraine Update October 15
- Ukraine Update October 16
- Declassified: The Truth They Never Wanted Us to Know
- The $10 Pre-Paid SIM Card That Wiped Out 20 Senior Russian Officers
- Men Are Calling the Woman Behind the Moon Landing a Fraud
- These Dumb MFs Really Believe Trump Will Give Them $5,000
- The More They Take, the More Enemies They Make
- The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Implements Multiple Cruelties After The Midterms
- The Republic of Me, And the Forgotten People
- The Trump Administration is Coming For Ilhan Omar, and None Other Than Former Rep.
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Politics tag on Medium?
- About 143 per day (998 per week), based on 799 stories published in the 5.6-day window before our last scan. The tag has 504,024 stories in total.
- Is the Politics tag competitive?
- Competition is high: it is busier than 71% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 43,288 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Politics?
- 5% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is tough for newcomers. 50% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.