Slow Burn

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Episodes: 130


 Jul 15, 2022

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 May 29, 2022

excellent journalism
 Jan 7, 2022
truly amazing storytelling and journalism.

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 Aug 10, 2021
hey don't push a whole show To your feed. I don't need two episodes of One Year auto downloaded to my phone every week, wtf

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Clarence Thomas is one of the most powerful figures in America today. Nearly every issue of national consequence has his fingerprints all over it, from voting rights to gun rights and from abortion access to affirmative action. But nothing about his journey from rural Georgia to the Supreme Court was inevitable.In the eighth season of Slate’s Slow Burn, host Joel Anderson traces Justice Thomas’ surprising path from youthful radical to conservative icon. You’ll hear about why he came to despise the race-based admission policies that personally benefitted him, how he credited his political rise to the Black self-sufficiency preached by Malcolm X, and what the American people didn’t hear during his explosive confirmation hearings.

Episode Date
One Year: 1955 - The Cutter Incident
Sep 28, 2023
One Year: 1955 - Siberia, USA
Sep 21, 2023
One Year: 1955 - The Weather Girls
Sep 14, 2023
One Year: 1955 - The Crockett Craze
Sep 07, 2023
One Year: 1955 - The Team Nobody Would Play
Aug 31, 2023
Decoder Ring: Think Catchphrases Are Dead? Eat My Shorts.
Aug 16, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Quest for a Homemade Hovercraft
Aug 09, 2023
Decoder Ring: A Brief History of Making Out
Aug 02, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Great Parmesan Cheese Debate
Jul 26, 2023
Decoder Ring: What's Really Going On Inside a Mosh Pit?
Jul 19, 2023
S8 Live Announcement & Bonus Conversation
Jul 15, 2023
S8 Ep. 4: A National Disgrace
Jun 21, 2023
S8 Ep. 3: I’m Their Guy
Jun 14, 2023
S8 Ep. 2: Smiling Faces
Jun 07, 2023
S8 Ep. 1: America’s Blackest Child
May 31, 2023
Season 8 Trailer: Becoming Justice Thomas
May 17, 2023
Decoder Ring: Who Owns the Tooth Fairy?
May 10, 2023
Decoder Ring: Why You Can’t Find a Damn Parking Spot
May 03, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Artist Who Was Both Loved and Disdained
Apr 26, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Curious Case of Columbo's Message to Romania Part 2
Apr 19, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Curious Case of Columbo's Message to Romania Part 1
Apr 12, 2023
Announcing Slow Burn Season 8
Feb 24, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Mailbag Episode
Jan 03, 2023
Decoder Ring: ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Got It Wrong
Dec 30, 2022
Decoder Ring: Cellino & Barnes, Injury Attorneys, 800-888-8888
Dec 27, 2022
Decoder Ring: How Preppy Became Streetwear
Dec 23, 2022
Decoder Ring: The New Age Hit Machine
Dec 20, 2022
Slow Burn: Roe v. Wade special announcement
Nov 29, 2022
S7 Ep. 5: Creating a Winning Show
Nov 29, 2022
One Year: 1942 - The Black-Japanese Axis
Nov 23, 2022
Decoder Ring: The Butt and the Bustle
Nov 22, 2022
One Year: 1942 - When Internment Came to Alaska
Nov 17, 2022
Decoder Ring: The Truth About #TheDress
Nov 15, 2022
One Year - 1942: The Info Wars of World War II
Nov 10, 2022
One Year: 1942 - The Day the Music Stopped
Nov 03, 2022
One Year: 1942 - The Year Everyone Got Married
Oct 27, 2022
One Year: 1942 - The Most Hated Man in America
Oct 20, 2022
Decoder Ring: McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime Pt. 2
Oct 12, 2022
Decoder Ring: McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime Pt. 1
Oct 04, 2022
One Year - 1986: The Man From Fifth Avenue
Sep 29, 2022
One Year - 1986: The Miracle of Cokeville
Sep 22, 2022
One Year - 1986: Herschel vs. the Blubber Busters
Sep 15, 2022
One Year - 1986: A Boycott in Mississippi
Sep 08, 2022
One Year - 1986: The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults
Sep 01, 2022
One Year - 1986: The Ultimate Field Trip
Aug 25, 2022
Slow Burn presents: One Year - 1986: No Crime Day
Aug 18, 2022
Decoder Ring: The “Sex” Scandal That Made Mae West
Aug 16, 2022
Decoder Ring: The First Alien Abductees
Aug 09, 2022
Decoder Ring: The Most Famous Poet No One Remembers
Aug 02, 2022
Slow Burn presents: Decoder Ring - The Mall is Dead (Long Live the Mall)
Jul 26, 2022
S7 Ep. 4: Roe Against Wade
Jun 22, 2022
S7 Ep. 3: Women vs. Connecticut
Jun 15, 2022
S7 Ep. 2: Life or Death
Jun 08, 2022
S7 Ep. 1: Get Married or Go Home
Jun 01, 2022
S6 Ep. 8: Damages
Dec 29, 2021
S6 Ep. 7: Into Ashes
Dec 22, 2021
S6 Ep. 6: No Peace
Dec 15, 2021
S6 Ep. 5: The System
Dec 08, 2021
SB6 Extra: Leading Up to the Riots
Dec 01, 2021
S6 Ep. 4: Glen
Nov 24, 2021
S6 Ep. 3: The Chief
Nov 17, 2021
S6 Ep. 2: No Justice
Nov 10, 2021
S6 Ep. 1: The Tape
Nov 03, 2021
Season 6 Trailer: The L.A. Riots
Oct 26, 2021
One Year: Jesus on a Tortilla
Aug 20, 2021
One Year: Roots: The Saga of Alex Haley
Aug 12, 2021
One Year: Mr. Marijuana and the Drug Czar
Aug 10, 2021
One Year: Elvis, the Pledge, and Extraterrestrials
Aug 05, 2021
One Year: The Miracle Cure
Aug 02, 2021
One Year: Mary Shane's Rookie Season
Jul 29, 2021
Decoder Ring: The Sign Painter
Jul 22, 2021
One Year: Anita Bryant's War on Gay Rights
Jul 09, 2021
S5 Ep. 8: Shock and Awe
Jun 16, 2021
S5 Ep. 7: Judy
Jun 09, 2021
S5 Ep.6: Big, if True
Jun 02, 2021
S5 Ep.5: Four Dicks (and Vice President Cheney)
May 26, 2021
S5 Extra: More on the Road to Iraq
May 19, 2021
S5 Ep.4: Fighting Words
May 12, 2021
S5 Ep. 3: Mushroom Clouds
May 05, 2021
S5 Ep. 2: Terror
Apr 28, 2021
S5 Ep. 1: The Exile
Apr 21, 2021
Season 5 Trailer: The Road to the Iraq War
Apr 15, 2021
Introducing: I Spy
Jan 29, 2021
S4 Extra: What We Can Learn From 1991
Oct 29, 2020
S4 Ep. 6: A Concerned Citizen
Jul 22, 2020
S4 Ep. 5: The Road to Hell
Jul 15, 2020
S4 Ep. 4: A Silent Army
Jul 08, 2020
Cold Call
Jul 01, 2020
S4 Ep. 3: The Nazi and the Republicans
Jun 24, 2020
S4 Ep. 2: Robe and Ritual
Jun 17, 2020
S4 Ep. 1: White Knight
Jun 10, 2020
Season 4 Trailer: David Duke
Jun 08, 2020
S3 Live: Party & Bullshit
Mar 18, 2020
Announcement: Slow Burn's Watergate Season on TV
Feb 14, 2020
Introducing: Broken Record
Dec 27, 2019
S3 Epilogue: Got a Story to Tell
Dec 20, 2019
S3 Ep. 8: Dead Wrong
Dec 18, 2019
S3 Ep. 7: To Live and Die in LA
Dec 11, 2019
S3 Ep. 6: Til Somebody Kills You
Dec 04, 2019
S3 Ep. 5 Plus: "East vs. West"
Nov 30, 2019
S3 Ep. 5: Wrath of a Menace
Nov 27, 2019
S3 Ep. 4: Against Those Thugs
Nov 20, 2019
S3 Ep. 3: What's Beef?
Nov 13, 2019
S3 Ep. 2: Cops on My Tail
Nov 06, 2019
S3 Ep. 1: Against the World
Oct 30, 2019
Season 3 Trailer: Biggie and Tupac
Oct 24, 2019
Introducing The Queen
Jun 04, 2019
Slow Burn Live: The Kingdom and the Power
Dec 05, 2018
Slow Burn Live: Keyholes
Nov 28, 2018
S2 Ep. 8: Move On
Oct 10, 2018
Secret Tracks
Oct 03, 2018
S2 Ep. 7: Bedfellows
Sep 26, 2018
S2 Ep. 6: God Mode
Sep 19, 2018
S2 Ep. 5: Tell-All
Sep 12, 2018
S2 Ep. 4: Alone, Together
Aug 29, 2018
S2 Ep. 3: Cred
Aug 22, 2018
S2 Ep. 2: There There
Aug 15, 2018
S2 Ep. 1: Deal or No Deal
Aug 08, 2018
Season 2 Trailer: The Clinton Impeachment
Jul 23, 2018
Live in New York
May 22, 2018
S1 Ep. 8: Going South
Jan 30, 2018
Extra, Extra
Jan 23, 2018
S1 Ep. 7: Saturday Night
Jan 16, 2018
S1 Ep. 6: Rabbit Holes
Jan 09, 2018
S1 Ep. 5: True Believers
Jan 02, 2018
S1 Ep. 4: Lie Detectors
Dec 19, 2017
S1 Ep. 3: A Very Successful Cover-Up
Dec 12, 2017
S1 Ep. 2: The Defeat of Wright Patman
Dec 05, 2017
Martha
Nov 28, 2017
Season 1 Trailer: Watergate
Nov 17, 2017