Slate Presents: One Year
The people and struggles that changed America—one year at a time. In each episode, host Josh Levin explores a story you may have forgotten, or one you’ve never heard of before. What were the moments that transformed politics, culture, science, religion, and more? And how does the nation’s past shape our present?
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The Queen | An Audiobook Preview
Listen to the first chapter of The Queen.
23 min
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The Queen | How to Write This Book
David Grann, Eliza Griswold, and James Forman Jr. on what it takes to write a reporting-intensive book.
20 min
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The Queen | The Kidnapping of Baby Fronczak
What connects the woman who was vilified as the “welfare queen” to a much graver crime.
11 min
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The Queen | 4. Bobbie and Diana
3 min
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The Queen | 3. Constance
5 min
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The Queen | 2. An Incredible Con
3 min
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The Queen | 1. Coronation
22 min
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Season 3 Trailer | The Queen: The Forgotten Lif...
7 min
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Charged | Ep 6: The Other Side
Once you're marked by the system, can you ever really be free of it?
27 min
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Charged | Ep 5: The Long Tail
An unexpected detour about long half-life of punishment.
39 min
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Charged | Ep 4: The Escape Hatch
Life on the knife's edge
29 min
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Charged | Ep 3: The Ghost of Tyrone Howard
The limits of mercy in Brooklyn.
25 min
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Charged | Ep 2: Criminogenic
One of the most infamous jails in the country and the battle to close it.
30 min
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Charged 1+: The Making of Charged
The producers discuss making a show that deals with race and crime.
24 min
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Charged | Ep 1: Born In Brooklyn
A brutal new court opens in Brooklyn. Two men's lives intersect inside of it.
26 min
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Season 2 Trailer | Charged: A True Punishment S...
3 min
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Standoff | Ep. 4: Afterlife
How did a brief incident become an enduring myth on the far right?
31 min
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Standoff | Ep. 3: The Wisdom of the Crowd
As the Weaver family stayed holed up inside their cabin, their story attracted droves of supporters and rabble-rousers to rural Idaho.
26 min
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Standoff | The Order and Women in White Power
More about the white power movement in the 1980s and '90s.
26 min
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Standoff | Ep. 2: Rules of Engagement
The tense situation on the Weaver family compound erupts into violence.
30 min
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Standoff | Ep. 1: Two Shotguns
Ruth Graham explores the ideologies and influences that led to the deadly siege at Ruby Ridge in 1992.
29 min
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Season 1 Trailer | Standoff: What Happened at R...
2 min