Slate Presents: One Year
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Slate Presents: One Year
The people and struggles that changed America—one year at a time. In each episode, host Josh Levin explores a story you may have forgotten, or one you’ve never heard of before. What were the moments that transformed politics, culture, science, religion, and more? And how does the nation’s past shape...
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1977 Rewind: Anita Bryant's War on Gay Rights
This is a reprise of the first episode of our season on 1977.
Miami, 1977: Pop singer and orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant takes a stand ag...
1995: Carolyn's Diary
The first true online diarist got famous for blurring the lines between private and public life. She also paid a price for her radical transparency.
1995: Hey Macarena!
In the mid-1990s, a bilingual pop song brought a huge amount of joy to a huge number of people. And then, very quickly, the Macarena became a cultural...
1995: Ann Arbor's DNA Dragnet
When a serial rapist struck Ann Arbor, Michigan, the police turned to drastic measures, based on the promise and power of DNA. For law enforcement, ge...
1995: Hitting the Spot
In 1995, aspiring filmmakers created the first ever soap opera on the Web. Hollywood saw it as the future of entertainment. But a fan-led revolt showe...
1995: Dr. GIFT
In 1995, an enormous scandal rocked the burgeoning field of reproductive medicine. This week, Christina Cauterucci tells the story of how one of the b...
1995: Fake Oxford
In 1995, a group of American teenagers crossed the Atlantic Ocean to attend one of the world's most prestigious universities. When they got to England...
1995: The Man Who Didn't Bomb Oklahoma City
White supremacist, anti-government terrorists attacked Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. A Muslim American came under immediate suspicion. How did a ma...
One Year: 1995 Trailer
Coming this Thursday, Nov 18th: The new season of One Year covers 1995, a year when homegrown terrorists attacked Oklahoma City, America went online,...
Slow Burn S6 Ep. 1: The Tape
On the night of March 2nd, 1991, at a remote intersection just outside of L.A., four police officers surrounded an unarmed Black man. They struck him...
1977: Jesus on a Tortilla
After Maria Rubio saw Jesus on a tortilla, her family got besieged by believers and gawkers and the national press. But for the Rubios, the tortilla w...
1977: Roots: The Saga of Alex Haley
Alex Haley’s Roots displayed the brutal realities of slavery to more than 100 million Americans. The book and mini-series also made a bold claim: that...
1977: Elvis, the Pledge, and Extraterrestrials
Three stories from one day in August 1977. Elvis Presley dies, and the National Enquirer goes after the ultimate tabloid scoop: a photo of the King in...
1977: The Miracle Cure
Medical authorities said that Laetrile was dangerous quackery. It became a sensation anyway. Diana Green saw this drug made from apricot pits as her s...
1977: Mary Shane's Rookie Season
Mary Shane made history with the Chicago White Sox, becoming the first woman hired as a legitimate major-league baseball announcer. But in 1977, she h...
1977: Mr. Marijuana and the Drug Czar
America’s top weed evangelist and the nation’s drug czar shared the same goal: to loosen up the country’s marijuana laws. In 1977, everything was tren...
1977: Anita Bryant's War on Gay Rights
Miami, 1977: Pop singer and orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant takes a stand against a local ordinance—and becomes the leader of a national anti-ga...
Introducing: One Year
The first season of One Year will focus on 1977, a year when gay rights hung in the balance, Roots dominated the airwaves, and Jesus appeared on a tor...
Slow Burn S4 Ep. 1: White Knight
Here's Episode 1 of Slow Burn Season 4: David Duke. Subscribe here.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a white supremacist became an Ame...
Slate Presents: Lockdown
If you have any school-aged children in your life, you know that lockdown and active shooter drills have become a routine part of their school experie...
The Queen | An Audiobook Preview
Listen to the first chapter of the audiobook version of The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth. Narrated by January LaVoy.
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The Queen | How to Write This Book
In this excerpt from the second bonus episode of The Queen, Dan Kois talks to Josh Levin about the process of writing the reporting-intensive book the...
The Queen | The Kidnapping of Baby Fronczak
Is it possible that Linda Taylor perpetrated one of the most infamous child abductions in American history? In this excerpt from the first bonus episo...
The Queen | 4. Bobbie and Diana
Linda Taylor had a tendency to emerge from out of nowhere, upend everything in her path, then vanish without leaving a forwarding address. The final e...
The Queen | 3. Constance
A decade before she became known as the “welfare queen,” Linda Taylor put herself at the center of a different Chicago scandal. Upon the death of gamb...
The Queen | 2. An Incredible Con
In the 1970s, a pair of very different men fought to define Linda Taylor’s image. For presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, Taylor epitomized the brok...
The Queen | 1. Coronation
Linda Taylor became the “welfare queen” in 1974 when the Chicago Tribune publicized her outrageous exploits. The reporter who introduced her to the wo...
Season 3 Trailer | The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
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 t...
Charged | Ep 6: The Other Side
We check in with Tarari and others as they complete their time in the diversion program and look toward their futures. We hear from the people inside...
Charged | Ep 5: The Long Tail
A standalone episode about one of the voices featured in our series who is introduced to listeners as an expert but who goes through his own harrowing...
Charged | Ep 4: The Escape Hatch
Tarari enters a diversion program which saves him from jail but puts his life — and the lives of other defendants like him — on a knife’s edge. We hea...
Charged | Ep 3: The Ghost of Tyrone Howard
Tarari faces a very long prison sentence before he’s offered the chance at mercy — with many strings attached. An episode from Eric’s past comes back...
Charged | Ep 2: Criminogenic
As his family and friends hustle to come up with his bail money, Tarari ends up at one of the most infamous jails in the country: Rikers Island. Eric...
Charged 1+: The Making of Charged
This is a free preview of a Slate Plus bonus episode of Charged. Only Slate Plus members get an additional episode of Charged every week, diving deepe...
Charged | Ep 1: Born In Brooklyn
The mayor of New York deals with a big political problem by creating a new court in Brooklyn. Two men, born 25 years and a few blocks apart in Brookly...
Season 2 Trailer | Charged: A True Punishment Story
Season 1 of Slate Presents brought you the story of Ruby Ridge, and Season 2 brings you a fight to transform one big-city justice system.
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Standoff | 4. Afterlife
In the final episode of Standoff, our narrative miniseries on the story of Ruby Ridge, host Ruth Graham recaps the prosecution of Randy Weaver and Kev...
Standoff | 3. The Wisdom of the Crowd
Host Ruth Graham describes what happens for the bulk of the 11-day siege on the Weaver family property. As the surviving Weavers stayed holed up insid...
Standoff | 2. Rules of Engagement
Ruth Graham breaks down what led to a shootout on the Weaver family property on Aug. 21, 1992, that left three people dead.
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Standoff | 1. Two Shotguns
Randy and Vicki Weaver moved their family to a remote Idaho cabin. They feared their world would be destroyed in an apocalyptic confrontation with the...