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 10: The Rise of Fox News

How a cable news channel became a cultural and political force—and how a whole bunch of people rose up to try and stop it.


Season 9: Gays Against Briggs

A nationwide moral panic, a California legislator who rode the anti-gay wave, and the LGBTQ+ people who stepped up and came out to try and stop him.


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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The Road to the Iraq War | Plus: Ann Curry on 9...
The veteran journalist recalls the terror and fear in New York City in the aftermath of 9/11.
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The Road to the Iraq War | 2. Terror
How the anthrax attacks of 2001 fueled a coming war with Iraq.
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The Road to the Iraq War | Plus: Who Was Ahmad ...
More on the divisive figure from the people who got to know him.
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The Road to the Iraq War | 1. The Exile
Ahmad Chalabi spent decades trying to return to Baghdad. Thanks to the Americans’ war, he finally got his wish.
47 min
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Season 5 Trailer: The Road to the Iraq War
Coming April 21st
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A Slow Burn Announcement
About Seasons 5 and 6.
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David Duke | Plus: Confronting Duke With His Ow...
TV news anchor Norman Robinson on watching David Duke’s rise in New Orleans.
54 min
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David Duke | 6. A Concerned Citizen
David Duke nearly became the governor of Louisiana. What did it take to stop him?
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David Duke | Plus: Katrina, Duke, and Reporting...
Writers Clint Smith and Vann R. Newkirk II discuss the parallels between David Duke’s rise and Hurricane Katrina.
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David Duke | 5. The Road to Hell
The 1991 Louisiana governor’s race turned into a battle over what the state was, and what it should be.
46 min
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David Duke | Plus: What It's Like to Play David...
Actor Topher Grace on portraying an infamous bigot for Spike Lee’s "BlackKklansman."
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David Duke | 4. A Silent Army
What message did David Duke’s voters send to everyone else in Louisiana?
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David Duke | Plus: Cold Call
What I learned from a child journalist’s interview with David Duke--and why I’m not interviewing him myself.
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David Duke | Plus: The Holocaust Survivor and t...
As David Duke’s profile rose in Louisiana and beyond, Anne Levy realized she had to speak up.
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David Duke | Plus: David Duke and the Modern Mo...
How the former KKK leader tried to learn from his mistakes to mentor the next generation of the white nationalists in America.
70 min
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David Duke | 3. The Nazi and the Republicans
The woman who tried to stop David Duke, and the GOP officials who accommodated him.
47 min
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David Duke | 2. Robe and Ritual
How David Duke used the Ku Klux Klan to sell his message, and himself.
45 min
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David Duke | 1. White Knight
The year that David Duke, America’s most famous white supremacist, went mainstream.
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Season 4 Trailer: David Duke
Coming June 10th
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Biggie and Tupac | Live Plus: “Keep Your Hands ...
From Slow Burn’s Feb. 5 live show in Washington.
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Biggie and Tupac | Live: Party & Bullshit
49 min
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Announcement: Slow Burn's Watergate Season on TV
Slow Burn's first season is now a TV docu-series, premiering Feb. 16 on Epix.
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Biggie and Tupac | Plus: The Aftermath
Reporter Cathy Scott on what went wrong in the investigation of Tupac’s murder.
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Biggie and Tupac | 8. Dead Wrong
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Biggie and Tupac | Plus: The King of St. James
Biggie biographer Cheo Hodari Coker talks about interviewing the rap star right before his untimely death.
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