Slow Burn

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.


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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?

History
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Slow Burn Live: The Kingdom and the Power
Hillary, Bill and Monica
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Slow Burn Live: Keyholes
What caused the impeachment of Bill Clinton?
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The Clinton Impeachment | 8. Move On
In 1998, Congress weighed whether Juanita Broaddrick’s rape accusation against Bill Clinton was grounds for impeachment.
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Secret Tracks
Ken Starr, Linda Tripp, and others who had a ringside seat at the Clinton circus.
28 min
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The Clinton Impeachment | 7. Bedfellows
Clinton’s enemies said his affair made him unfit to govern. What did his friends think?
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The Clinton Impeachment | 6. God Mode
The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal sent the religious right into paroxysms of outrage. The rest of the country wasn’t convinced.
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The Clinton Impeachment | 5. Tell-All
Linda Tripp exposed Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. What was she thinking?
45 min
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The Clinton Impeachment | 4. Alone, Together
What really happened between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky?
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The Clinton Impeachment | 3. Cred
Many accusations were launched against Bill Clinton. Only some of them stuck.
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The Clinton Impeachment | 2. There There
The Clinton administration was mired in scandal from its very first days.
40 min
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The Clinton Impeachment | 1. Deal or No Deal
Season 2 of Slow Burn begins with the Clinton presidency hanging by a thread.
34 min
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Season 2 Trailer: The Clinton Impeachment
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Live in New York
Trump, Watergate and Nixon's legacy
50 min
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Watergate | 8. Going South
How it all ended.
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Extra, Extra
Some excerpts from our bonus episodes
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Watergate | 7. Saturday Night
The weekend it all fell apart.
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Watergate | 6. Rabbit Holes
Watergate turned America into a nation of conspiracy theorists.
31 min
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Watergate | 5. True Believers
Why did so many people stand with Richard Nixon for so long?
34 min
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Watergate | 4. Lie Detectors
How Watergate became the greatest show on earth.
31 min
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Watergate | 3. A Very Successful Cover-Up
Why did it take so long for people to care about Watergate?
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Watergate | 2. The Defeat of Wright Patman
The first Watergate hearings didn't go so well.
27 min
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Watergate | 1. Martha
Our eight-episode miniseries launches with the story of a woman who knew too much.
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Season 1 Trailer: Watergate
A podcast about Watergate.
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