Slate Presents: One Year
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Slate Presents: One Year
Stories that are deeply reported, compulsively listenable—and curated by Slate.Season 3 | The QueenLinda Taylor committed abhorrent crimes. She became a legend for the least of them.Season 2 | Charged: A True Punishment StoryBrooklyn's gun court promised safer streets—but for whom?Season 1 | Standof...
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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.
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 (Preview)
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...
The Queen - Introducing... The Queen
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...
Standoff: What Happened at Ruby Ridge? - 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: What Happened at Ruby Ridge? - 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: What Happened at Ruby Ridge? - 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: What Happened at Ruby Ridge? - 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...
Standoff: What Happened at Ruby Ridge? - Introducing... Standoff: What Happened at Ruby Ridge?
In 1992, hundreds of armed federal agents surrounded a family of white separatists in a ramshackle mountaintop cabin. Eleven days later, three people...