Slow Burn

A podcast by Slate Podcasts

Categories:

Society & Culture History

147 Episodes

  1. Decoder Ring: Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?

    Published: 4/10/2024

  2. Decoder Ring: Andrew Wyeth's Secret Nudes (Encore)

    Published: 3/27/2024

  3. Decoder Ring: Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet

    Published: 3/13/2024

  4. Decoder Ring: The Gen X Soda That Was Just "OK"

    Published: 2/28/2024

  5. Announcing Slow Burn Season 9

    Published: 2/22/2024

  6. Decoder Ring: Why Do So Many Coffee Shops Look the Same?

    Published: 2/14/2024

  7. One Year: 1990 | 5. The Angry Death of Kimberly Bergalis

    Published: 12/21/2023

  8. One Year: 1990 | 4. Art on Trial

    Published: 12/14/2023

  9. One Year: 1990 | 3. Bush vs. Broccoli

    Published: 12/7/2023

  10. One Year: 1990 | 2. Mandrake the Magician

    Published: 11/30/2023

  11. One Year: 1990 | 1. Pizzastroika

    Published: 11/22/2023

  12. Decoder Ring: The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery

    Published: 11/15/2023

  13. Decoder Ring: The Dating Manual Unlike Any Other

    Published: 11/8/2023

  14. Decoder Ring: Mailbag - The Recorder, Limos, and “Baby on Board” Signs

    Published: 11/1/2023

  15. Decoder Ring: When Art Pranksters Invaded Melrose Place

    Published: 10/25/2023

  16. Decoder Ring: The Fast Decline of the Slow Dance

    Published: 10/18/2023

  17. One Year: 1955 | 6. The Hiroshima Maidens

    Published: 10/6/2023

  18. One Year: 1955 | 5. The Cutter Incident

    Published: 9/28/2023

  19. One Year: 1955 | 4. Siberia, USA

    Published: 9/21/2023

  20. One Year: 1955 | 3. The Weather Girls

    Published: 9/14/2023

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Slow Burn illuminates America’s most consequential moments, making sense of the past to better understand the present. Through archival tape and first-person interviews, the award-winning series uncovers the surprising events and little-known characters lurking within the biggest stories of our time. Want more Slow Burn? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately access all episodes of Slow Burn (and your other favorite Slate podcasts) completely ad-free. Plus, you’ll unlock subscriber-exclusive bonus episodes that bring you behind-the-scenes on the making of the show. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/slowburnplus to get access wherever you listen. Season 8: Becoming Justice Thomas Where Clarence Thomas came from, how he rose to power, and how he’s brought the rest of us along with him, whether we like it or not. Winner of the Podcast of the Year at the 2024 Ambies Awards. Season 7: Roe v. Wade The women who fought for legal abortion, the activists who pushed back, and the justices who thought they could solve the issue for good. Winner of Apple Podcasts Show of the Year in 2022. Season 6: The L.A. Riots How decades of police brutality, a broken justice system, and a video tape set off six days of unrest in Los Angeles. Season 5: The Road to the Iraq War Eighteen months after 9/11, the United States invaded a country that had nothing to do with the attacks. Who’s to blame? And was there any way to stop it? Season 4: David Duke America’s most famous white supremacist came within a runoff of controlling Louisiana. How did David Duke rise to power? And what did it take to stop him? Season 3: Biggie and Tupac How is it that two of the most famous performers in the world were murdered within a year of each other—and their killings were never solved? Season 2: The Clinton Impeachment A reexamination of the scandals that nearly destroyed the 42nd president and forever changed the life of a former White House intern. Season 1: Watergate What did it feel like to live through the scandal that brought down President Nixon?