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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Biggie and Tupac | 7. To Live and Die in LA
26 min
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Biggie and Tupac | Plus: How Suge Knight Reigne...
On the issues that drove Dr. Dre out and took down the label.
54 min
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Biggie and Tupac | 6. Til Somebody Kills You
24 min
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Biggie and Tupac | Plus: "East vs. West"
On the Vibe cover story that further stoked conflict between Death Row and Bad Boy.
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Biggie and Tupac | 5. Wrath of a Menace
26 min
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Biggie and Tupac | Plus: Interviewing C. Delore...
Journalist Kierna Mayo talks about being a woman covering the early days of hip-hop.
51 min
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Biggie and Tupac | 4. Against Those Thugs
A 66-year-old woman on a moral crusade upends the music industry.
25 min
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Biggie and Tupac | Plus: The Rise of Hip-Hop Media
How magazines like Vibe and The Source helped spread hip-hop culture around the country.
48 min
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Biggie and Tupac | 3. What's Beef?
An escalating personal rivalry turns into a bicoastal war.
33 min
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Biggie and Tupac | Plus: Rap Lyrics as Evidence
How law enforcement and prosecutors have used Tupac’s songs and other hip-hop music to convict and incarcerate men of color.
56 min
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Biggie and Tupac | 2. Cops on My Tail
How police claimed rap lyrics were turning black listeners into cop killers.
29 min
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Biggie and Tupac | Plus: The Two Sides of Tupac
Lawyer to the stars Shawn Holley discusses what it was like to know and defend Tupac during the 1990s.
62 min
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Biggie and Tupac | 1. Against the World
29 min
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Season 3 Trailer: Biggie and Tupac
Coming Oct. 30
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The Clinton Impeachment | Live: The Kingdom and...
Hillary, Bill and Monica
50 min
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The Clinton Impeachment | Live: Keyholes
What caused the impeachment of Bill Clinton?
51 min
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The Clinton Impeachment | Plus: Flytrap
A bonus episode of Slow Burn.
44 min
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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.
54 min
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The Clinton Impeachment | Plus: The How to Make...
An extra special bonus episode.
38 min
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The Clinton Impeachment | Plus: Exit Through th...
A bonus episode of Slow Burn.
27 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?
44 min
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The Clinton Impeachment | Plus: Former Kids
A bonus episode of Slow Burn.
43 min
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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.
46 min
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The Clinton Impeachment | Plus: Where Linda Tri...
A bonus episode of Slow Burn.
33 min
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The Clinton Impeachment | 5. Tell-All
Linda Tripp exposed Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. What was she thinking?
43 min