Slow Burn

In Slow Burn’s 10th season, host Josh Levin takes you back to a crucial inflection point in American history: the moment between 2000 and 2004 when Fox News first surged to power and a whole bunch of people rose up to try and stop it.You’ll hear from the hosts, reporters, and producers who built Fox News, many who’ve never spoken publicly. You’ll also hear from Fox’s biggest antagonists—the political operatives, journalists, and comedians who attacked it, investigated it, and tried to mock it into submission. And you’ll hear from Fox’s victims, who are still coming to terms with how a cable news channel upended their lives.

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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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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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Live: Party & Bullshit
50 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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Introducing: Broken Record
51 min
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Biggie and Tupac | Epilogue: Got a Story to Tell
Listen to the some of the extended interviews and stories we couldn't fit into this season.
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Biggie and Tupac | 8. Dead Wrong
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Biggie and Tupac | 7. To Live and Die in LA
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Biggie and Tupac | 6. Til Somebody Kills You
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Biggie and Tupac | 5+. "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
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Biggie and Tupac | 4. Against Those Thugs
A 66-year-old woman on a moral crusade upends the music industry.
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Biggie and Tupac | What's Beef?
An escalating personal rivalry turns into a bicoastal war.
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Biggie and Tupac | 2. Cops on My Tail
How police claimed rap lyrics were turning black listeners into cop killers.
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Biggie and Tupac | 1. Against the World
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Season 3 Trailer: Biggie and Tupac
Coming Oct. 30
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Introducing The Queen
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Slow Burn Live: The Kingdom and the Power
Hillary, Bill and Monica
50 min
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Slow Burn Live: Keyholes
What caused the impeachment of Bill Clinton?
51 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.
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Secret Tracks
Ken Starr, Linda Tripp, and others who had a ringside seat at the Clinton circus.
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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?
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The Clinton Impeachment | 4. Alone, Together
What really happened between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky?
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