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In 1992, a jury failed to convict the four Los Angeles police officers who'd been captured on videotape beating Rodney King. The city erupted into fire and chaos––the culmination of decades of unchecked police abuse and racial injustice.
For the sixth season of Slate’s Slow Burn, Joel Anderson returns to explore the people and events behind the biggest civil disturbance in American history––a story that’s still playing out today.
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S4 Ep. 6: A Concerned Citizen from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the fall of 1991, David Duke looked like a real threat to become the governor of Louisiana. On the sixth and final episode of Slow Burn's fourth season: What arguments did David Duke's opponents...
ListenS4 Ep. 5: The Road to Hell from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Edwin Edwards was a towering force in Louisiana politics. Buddy Roemer dethroned him and promised to modernize the state. In 1991, David Duke challenged both of them—and was soon on the verge of th...
ListenS4 Ep. 4: A Silent Army from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Duke wasn’t content being a state representative. He wanted to go national, and in 1990 he expanded his base of white voters to try to attain that goal. In Episode 4 of Slow Burn: How David ...
ListenS4 Ep. 3: The Nazi and the Republicans from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 1989, David Duke got a foothold in American politics. To build on that victory, he’d have to fend off a Republican official determined to bring him down. In the third episode of our series: the...
ListenS4 Ep. 2: Robe and Ritual from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Duke dreamed of becoming the charismatic leader who’d bring racism to the masses. He tried to make that dream a reality by seizing on America’s most powerful symbol of white supremacist terro...
ListenS4 Ep. 1: White Knight from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the first half of the 1980s, it looked like David Duke’s career as a professional racist was over. But the former Ku Klux Klan leader had a comeback plan: He was going to keep quiet about his mo...
ListenSeason 4 Trailer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a white supremacist became an American political phenomenon. David Duke’s rise to power and prominence—his election to the Louisiana legislature, and then his cam...
ListenS3 Live: Party & Bullshit from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Slate Plus members get bonus episodes of Slow Burn every season, plus zero ads. Sign up now to listen and support the show. A special edition of Slow Burn features Joel Anderson live on stage, with...
ListenIntroducing: Broken Record from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Hey Slow Burn listeners. We have something special for you this week. It's an episode of Broken Record, a music podcast from Pushkin Industries, co-hosted by Malcolm Gladwell and music producer Ric...
ListenS3 Epilogue: Got a Story to Tell from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Slate Plus members get a bonus episode of Slow Burn every week. This is a preview of the bonus episodes released this season:—interviews with Slow Burn host Joel Anderson and producer Christopher J...
ListenS3 Ep. 8: Dead Wrong from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Questions have swirled around the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls ever since their deaths. Who killed them, and why? How come no one was ever charged in either case? Is Tupac still alive ...
ListenS3 Ep. 7: To Live and Die in LA from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this week's episode: After Tupac’s murder: Revenge killings in Compton, a day of atonement in Harlem, and Biggie Smalls risks everything by going back to Cali. Slate Plus members get bonus episo...
ListenS3 Ep. 6: Til Somebody Kills You from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this episode: In the summer of 1996, Tupac Shakur seemed to be on the verge of a decision—about what kind of career he wanted to have, and what kind of life he wanted to live. And then he went t...
ListenS3 Ep. 5 Plus: "East vs. West" from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Slate Plus members get a bonus episode of Slow Burn every week. To listen to the rest of the bonus episodes this season, sign up for Slate Plus now. In this Slow Burn bonus episode, host Joel Ander...
ListenS3 Ep. 5: Wrath of a Menace from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this episode: Tupac claims—loudly, publicly, and with very little evidence—that he’s been sleeping with Faith Evans, Biggie’s estranged wife. Slate Plus members get bonus episodes of Slow Burn a...
ListenS3 Ep. 4: Against Those Thugs from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this episode: Gangsta rap becomes a huge money maker. Civil rights activist C. Delores Tucker and conservative culture warrior Bill Bennett launch a crusade against offensive lyrics. And hip-hop...
ListenS3 Ep. 3: What's Beef? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this episode: Biggie releases “Who Shot Ya,” an instant hip-hop classic that Tupac takes as a personal affront. Tupac calls out Biggie and Puffy in a jailhouse interview. And the Death Row and B...
ListenS3 Ep. 2: Cops on My Tail from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 1992, Ronald Ray Howard shot and killed Texas state trooper Bill Davidson. His lawyer argued he’d been driven to murder by the music he’d been playing in his car: a dubbed copy of Tupac Shakur’s...
ListenS3 Ep. 1: Against the World from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On the first episode of Slow Burn’s third season: How a violent robbery severed Tupac’s friendship with Biggie Smalls and sparked a bicoastal beef that consumed the world of hip-hop. In November 19...
ListenSeason 3 Trailer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In its first two seasons, Slow Burn looked back at two of the biggest stories of the late 20th century—the Watergate scandal and the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Season three of the show tackles an...
ListenIntroducing The Queen from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Linda Taylor was a con artist, a kidnapper, maybe even a murderer. She was also America’s original “welfare queen,” the villain Ronald Reagan needed to create a vision of a country being taken adva...
ListenSlow Burn Live: The Kingdom and the Power from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A special edition of Slow Burn features Leon Neyfakh live on stage. In the second of two episodes, Leon was joined in by Emily Bazelon, Wesley Morris, Dan Savage, and Andi Zeisler to explore linger...
ListenSlow Burn Live: Keyholes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A special edition of Slow Burn features Leon Neyfakh live on stage. In the first of two episodes, Leon was joined in by Ruth Marcus and Rick Perlstein to explore lingering questions about the Clint...
ListenS2 Ep. 8: Move On from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Juanita Broaddrick told Ken Starr’s team of prosecutors that Bill Clinton had raped her in 1978. Her story wasn’t included in the Starr Report—but members of congress found out about it anyway, and...
ListenSecret Tracks from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Every week, Slate Plus members get a special episode of Slow Burn in which Leon Neyfakh talks to people connected with the Clinton impeachment saga. This week, we’re presenting excerpts from those ...
ListenS2 Ep. 7: Bedfellows from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today it’s conventional wisdom that all feminists hypocritically turned their backs on Monica Lewinsky. In fact, the scandal provoked an intense debate within the feminist movement about sex, power...
ListenS2 Ep. 6: God Mode from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Some of the most withering criticism of Clinton came from a coalition of conservative activists whose political views were bound up with their faith. The influence of the Christian right within the...
ListenS2 Ep. 5: Tell-All from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Aside from Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, the most pivotal player in the Clinton impeachment saga may have been Linda Tripp—an ordinary person who made extraordinary choices that precipitated th...
ListenS2 Ep. 4: Alone, Together from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What happened between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky? Why did it happen? And what are we supposed to do about the fact that the whims and impulses of individual men can—and constantly do—alter th...
ListenS2 Ep. 3: Cred from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When Bill Clinton went to Washington, rumors and accusations from his Arkansas past went with him. But even his most dedicated political enemies couldn't predict where their efforts would lead. Sla...
ListenS2 Ep. 2: There There from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 1993, Bill and Hillary Clinton moved into the White House on a swell of optimism. In less than a year, the new administration was mired in a sea of scandals: Travelgate, Filegate, Nannygate, and...
ListenS2 Ep. 1: Deal or No Deal from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
For 11 hours, Monica Lewinsky faced off against federal prosecutors who wanted her to help them take down the president and threatened her with decades in jail. Slate Plus members get a bonus episo...
ListenSeason 2 Trailer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The saga of Bill Clinton’s impeachment is rich with forgotten characters, surprising subplots, and opportunities to reflect on just how much America has changed over the past 20 years. Whether you’...
ListenLive in New York from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A special edition of Slow Burn features Leon Neyfakh live on stage in New York City. On April 19th, Leon was joined by Bob Woodward, Virginia Heffernan, Gail Sheehy, Mary DeOreo and Marc Lackritz t...
ListenS1 Ep. 8: Going South from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What had to happen for the Watergate scandals to end Richard Nixon’s career? And was his downfall inevitable? In the final episode of Slow Burn’s first season, Leon Neyfakh assesses the president’s...
ListenExtra, Extra from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Slate Plus members get a bonus episode of Slow Burn every week. This week, we're releasing some samples of those episodes—interviews with people with a unique perspective on Watergate. Next week: T...
ListenS1 Ep. 7: Saturday Night from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What did Richard Nixon do when he felt the walls closing in? How did the country respond? And what did it feel like when people finally got to hear those tapes? Slate Plus members get a bonus episo...
ListenS1 Ep. 6: Rabbit Holes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Why were so many Americans ready to believe conspiracy theories after Watergate? How did those beliefs help trigger Nixon‘s downfall? And given what we know about Watergate—what separates a conspir...
ListenS1 Ep. 5: True Believers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
At a bar in Queens, and in the Senate offices, Nixon's supporters stood with him long after it was clear his hands were dirty. How did they rationalize their position? And what, finally, made them ...
ListenS1 Ep. 4: Lie Detectors from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How a folksy segregationist senator, a team of young investigators, and a few whistleblowers staged the hearings that made Watergate must-see TV. Slate Plus members get a bonus episode of Slow Burn...
ListenS1 Ep. 3: A Very Successful Cover-Up from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Woodward and Bernstein, Walter Cronkite, and a host of other journalists tried to make people care about Watergate in the run-up to the 1972 election. They totally failed. Slate Plus members get a ...
ListenS1 Ep. 2: The Defeat of Wright Patman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 1973, the Senate Watergate hearings gripped the nation. But the first congressional hearings on the scandal took place a year earlier—and featured an angry Texan shouting at four empty chairs. S...
ListenS1 Ep. 1: Martha from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
People called her crazy, and to be fair she must have seemed crazy. But she was onto something. How Martha Mitchell, the celebrity wife of one of Nixon’s closest henchmen, tried to blow the whistle...
ListenComing Nov. 28 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It took two years for the Watergate scandal to unfold—for a break-in at the Democratic Party's headquarters to go from a weird little caper to a constitutional crisis that brought down a president....
ListenComing Nov. 28 from 2017-11-17T15:35
It took two years for the Watergate scandal to unfold—for a break-in at the Democratic Party's headquarters to go from a weird little caper to a constitutional crisis that brought down a president....
ListenComing Nov. 28 from 2017-11-17T15:35
It took two years for the Watergate scandal to unfold—for a break-in at the Democratic Party's headquarters to go from a weird little caper to a constitutional crisis that brought down a president....
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