An Audiobook Preview | The Queen
Listen to the first chapter of the audiobook version of The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth . Narrated by January LaVoy. H...
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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...
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How to Write This Book | The Queen
In this excerpt from the second bonus episode of The Queen, Dan Kois talks to Josh Levin about the process of writing the reporting-intensiv...
The Kidnapping of Baby Fronczak | The Queen
Is it possible that Linda Taylor perpetrated one of the most infamous child abductions in American history? In this excerpt from the first b...
Bobbie and Diana | The Queen
Linda Taylor had a tendency to emerge from out of nowhere, upend everything in her path, then vanish without leaving a forwarding address. T...
Constance | The Queen
A decade before she became known as the “welfare queen,” Linda Taylor put herself at the center of a different Chicago scandal. Upon the dea...
An Incredible Con | The Queen
In the 1970s, a pair of very different men fought to define Linda Taylor’s image. For presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, Taylor epitomize...
Coronation | The Queen
Linda Taylor became the “welfare queen” in 1974 when the Chicago Tribune publicized her outrageous exploits. The reporter who introduced her...
Slate Presents... 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 Reaga...
The Other Side | Charged: A True Punishment Story
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 peop...
The Long Tail | Charged: A True Punishment Story
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...
The Escape Hatch | Charged: A True Punishment Story
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 ed...
The Ghost of Tyrone Howard | Charged: A True Punishment Story
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 c...
Criminogenic | Charged: A True Punishment Story
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 Isl...
The Making of Charged | Charged: A True Punishment Story
In this first bonus episode of Charged, host Emily Bazelon talks to producers Veralyn Williams and Alvin Melathe. Williams worked with Bazel...
Born In Brooklyn | Charged: A True Punishment Story
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...
Slate Presents... 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. Jo...
Afterlife | Standoff: What Happened at Ruby Ridge?
In the final episode of Standoff , our narrative miniseries on the story of Ruby Ridge, host Ruth Graham recaps the prosecution of Randy Wea...
The Wisdom of the Crowd | Standoff: What Happened at Ruby Ridge?
Host Ruth Graham describes what happens for the bulk of the 11-day siege on the Weaver family property. As the surviving Weavers stayed hole...
Rules of Engagement | Standoff: What Happened at Ruby Ridge?
Ruth Graham breaks down what led to a shootout on the Weaver family property on Aug. 21, 1992, that left three people dead. Join Slate Plus...
Two Shotguns | Standoff: What Happened at Ruby Ridge?
Randy and Vicki Weaver moved their family to a remote Idaho cabin. They feared their world would be destroyed in an apocalyptic confrontatio...