Slow Burn

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 series uncovers the surprising events and little-known characters lurking within the biggest stories of our time.


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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?

History
Documentary
Politics
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The Clinton Impeachment | 3. Cred
Many accusations were launched against Bill Clinton. Only some of them stuck.
39 min
177
The Clinton Impeachment | 2. There There
The Clinton administration was mired in scandal from its very first days.
40 min
178
The Clinton Impeachment | 1. Deal or No Deal
Season 2 of Slow Burn begins with the Clinton presidency hanging by a thread.
34 min
179
Season 2 Trailer: The Clinton Impeachment
3 min
180
Watergate | Live in New York
Trump, Watergate and Nixon's legacy
50 min
181
Watergate | 8. Going South
How it all ended.
6 min
182
Extra, Extra
Some excerpts from our bonus episodes
21 min
183
Watergate | 7. Saturday Night
The weekend it all fell apart.
6 min
184
Watergate | 6. Rabbit Holes
Watergate turned America into a nation of conspiracy theorists.
7 min
185
Watergate | 5. True Believers
Why did so many people stand with Richard Nixon for so long?
6 min
186
Watergate | 4. Lie Detectors
How Watergate became the greatest show on earth.
8 min
187
Watergate | 3. A Very Successful Cover-Up
Why did it take so long for people to care about Watergate?
5 min
188
Watergate | 2. The Defeat of Wright Patman
The first Watergate hearings didn't go so well.
28 min
189
Watergate | 1. Martha
Our eight-episode miniseries launches with the story of a woman who knew too much.
24 min
190
Season 1 Trailer: Watergate
A podcast about Watergate.
2 min