Slow Burn

In Slow Burn’s 10th season, host Josh Levin takes you back to a crucial inflection point in American

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Not too long ago an old clip surfaced of Peter Falk on David Letterman, in which he told an intrigui

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We’re really lucky to get a lot of listener emails, suggesting topics for the show. In this episode,

(This episode originally aired in March 2020.)The 1998 romantic comedy You’ve Got Mail, starring Tom

Ross Cellino and Steve Barnes were two Buffalo-based lawyers who became the literal poster-men for p

We bring you a special episode from the Articles of Interest podcast hosted by Avery Trufelman about

For this episode, a story from Slate senior producer Evan Chung about how Yanni, John Tesh and a num

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In 1942, federal officials targeted a group of Black Americans who were allegedly hoping for a Japan

For about two decades towards the end of the Victorian era, in the 1870s and 1880s, a large bustle-e

Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan launched another attack on the United States. This time, Axis f

In the history of viral images, #TheDress has got to be in the top 10. This unassuming photo of a pa

In March 1942, a new nightly radio show hit the American airwaves. The stated goal of Station Debunk

On Aug. 1, 1942, the nation’s recording studios went silent. Musicians were fed up with the new tech

There were 1.8 million weddings in 1942, the most that had ever been recorded in a single year in Am

At the beginning of World War II, the greatest threat to the American war effort wasn’t the Nazis or

McGruff the Crime Dog arrived on the scene at the dawn of the 1980s, just as a firehose of anti-drug

McGruff the Crime Dog arrived on the scene at the dawn of the 1980s, just as a firehose of anti-drug

After Joe Mauri gets evicted from his New York apartment, he becomes a star in the USSR, the subject