Slow Burn: Plus

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.


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?

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S2 Ep. 6 Plus: Former Kids
A bonus episode of Slow Burn.
43 min
102
S2 Ep. 6: God Mode
The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal sent the religious right into paroxysms of outrage. The rest of the country wasn’t convinced.
46 min
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S2 Ep. 5 Plus: Where Linda Tripp Is Coming From
A bonus episode of Slow Burn.
33 min
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S2 Ep. 5: Tell-All
Linda Tripp exposed Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. What was she thinking?
43 min
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S2 Ep. 4 Plus: Cold Lump of Metal
A bonus episode of Slow Burn.
42 min
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S2 Ep. 4: Alone, Together
What really happened between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky?
38 min
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S2 Ep. 3 Plus: Clinton v. Jones
A bonus episode of Slow Burn.
31 min
108
S2 Ep. 3: Cred
Many accusations were launched against Bill Clinton. Only some of them stuck.
37 min
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S2 Ep. 2 Plus: Ahead of Her Time
A bonus episode of Slow Burn.
25 min
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S2 Ep. 2: There There
The Clinton administration was mired in scandal from its very first days.
39 min
111
S2 Ep. 1 Plus: How Monica Got Her Life Back
The first bonus episode of Season 2.
37 min
112
S2 Ep. 1: Deal or No Deal
Season 2 of Slow Burn begins with the Clinton presidency hanging by a thread.
34 min
113
Season 2 Trailer
3 min
114
The RFK Tapes
A new podcast series that takes a new look at the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
34 min
115
Live in New York
Trump, Watergate and Nixon's legacy
50 min
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Upon Further Review | What If Nixon Had Been Go...
Football really mattered to Richard Nixon. Only one problem — he sucked at it.
25 min
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Answering Your Watergate Questions
Leon Neyfakh on Nixon's paranoia, his hardcore supporters, and the wildest campaign gear.
32 min
118
Slow Burn | e8+
A Watergate scrapbook.
31 min
119
S1 Ep. 8: Going South
How it all ended.
42 min
120
Extra, Extra
Some excerpts from our bonus episodes
21 min
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Slow Burn | e7+
Was the 18-minute gap in Nixon's White House tapes an accident?
39 min
122
S1 Ep. 7: Saturday Night
36 min
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Slow Burn | e6+
The legacy of Judge Sirica.
31 min
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S1 Ep. 6: Rabbit Holes
Watergate turned America into a nation of conspiracy theorists.
31 min
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Slow Burn | e5+
Did Woodward and Bernstein really save the republic?
24 min