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 Clinton Impeachment | Plus: Cold Lump of Metal
A bonus episode of Slow Burn.
42 min
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The Clinton Impeachment | 4. Alone, Together
What really happened between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky?
38 min
128
The Clinton Impeachment | Plus: Clinton v. Jones
A bonus episode of Slow Burn.
31 min
129
The Clinton Impeachment | 3. Cred
Many accusations were launched against Bill Clinton. Only some of them stuck.
37 min
130
The Clinton Impeachment | Plus: Ahead of Her Time
A bonus episode of Slow Burn.
25 min
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The Clinton Impeachment | 2. There There
The Clinton administration was mired in scandal from its very first days.
39 min
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The Clinton Impeachment | Plus: How Monica Got ...
The first bonus episode of Season 2.
37 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
134
Season 2 Trailer: The Clinton Impeachment
3 min
135
The RFK Tapes
A new podcast series that takes a new look at the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
34 min
136
Watergate | Live in New York
Trump, Watergate and Nixon's legacy
50 min
137
Upon Further Review | What If Nixon Had Been Go...
Football really mattered to Richard Nixon. Only one problem — he sucked at it.
25 min
138
Watergate | Plus: Answering Your Questions
Leon Neyfakh on Nixon's paranoia, his hardcore supporters, and the wildest campaign gear.
32 min
139
Watergate | Plus: The Watergate Scrapbook
31 min
140
Watergate | 8. Going South
How it all ended.
42 min
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Watergate | Plus: The 18-Minute Gap
Was the 18-minute gap in Nixon's White House tapes an accident?
39 min
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Watergate | 7. Saturday Night
The weekend it all fell apart.
36 min
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Watergate | Plus: The Legacy of Judge Sirica
31 min
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Watergate | 6. Rabbit Holes
Watergate turned America into a nation of conspiracy theorists.
31 min
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Watergate | Plus: Did Woodward and Bernstein Re...
24 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 | Plus: Uncle Sam's Fan Club
Join Uncle Sam's Fan Club and our pop-up book club, too.
40 min
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Watergate | 4. Lie Detectors
How Watergate became the greatest show on earth.
31 min
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Watergate | Plus: Nixon’s Dirtiest “Dirty Tricks”
30 min
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Watergate | 3. A Very Successful Cover-Up
Why did it take so long for people to care about Watergate?
28 min