In Slow Burn’s 10th season, host Josh Levin takes you back to a crucial inflection point in American
Slate's new podcast One Year and will introduce you to people and ideas that changed American histor
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On Feb. 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell went to the United Nations to make the Bush adminis
Four men in Congress—two from each party—helped determine whether President George W. Bush would be
This week, we're highlighting a few excerpts from this season's Slate Plus episodes—interviews with
In the year leading up the invasion, George W. Bush sketched his justification for the war: good vs.
To start a war of choice, you need a casus belli—a case for war. Why did the Bush administration set
Just hours after 9/11, American decision makers had already started thinking about attacking Iraq. W
Eighteen years have passed since the United States invaded Iraq. It’s a war that killed hundreds of
In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq without provocation. Most Americans supported the war—as did
We're excited to introduce you to I Spy, a production of Foreign Policy. Each week on I Spy, a forme
A few excerpts from Season 4's bonus interviews, and a special Slow Burn announcement.Want more Slow
David Duke wasn’t content being a state representative. He wanted to go national, and in 1990 he exp
In 1989, a Black 12-year-old girl in New Orleans found the David Duke phenomenon, and Duke himself,
In 1989, David Duke got a foothold in American politics. To build on that victory, he’d have to fend
David Duke dreamed of becoming the charismatic leader who’d bring racism to the masses. He tried to
In the first half of the 1980s, it looked like David Duke’s career as a professional racist was over
