The 2004 presidential race would be the first fully Fox News election—a contest that was framed by Fox, and fought... more

As Fox News gathered strength, progressive activists turned to comedian Al Franken and fledgling online communities to punch back. But... more

After 9/11, the Fox News Channel rallied a huge portion of the country around the Bush administration’s vision of the... more

For a decade and a half, CNN was peerless and ambitious, and it understood its place in the world. At... more

Before he ran Fox News, Roger Ailes launched a very different kind of channel. America’s Talking was his vision of... more

When the Fox News Channel launched in 1996, critics called it disorganized, incompetent, and laughably inept. But it wouldn’t be... more

For the two years leading up to May 21, 1979, gay activists followed the rules. They engaged in civil debates.... more

On election night in 1978, gays and lesbians in California braced themselves for the statewide vote on Proposition 6. Less... more

As Election Day approached, the campaign to defeat Proposition 6 faced formidable odds. John Briggs’ fundraising juggernaut was churning out... more

In the early days of the anti-Briggs campaign, a Richard Pryor comedy set turned into a public fiasco and laid... more

After decades of wandering and job-hopping, Harvey Milk found his purpose as a gay community leader with growing political ambitions.... more

In 1977, John Briggs was a small-time state senator with big dreams. But Briggs’ plan to ban gay and lesbian... more

The new season of Slate's Slow Burn continues a story you heard on the very first episode of One Year:... more

Before 1990, there had never been a documented case of a patient getting HIV from a health care worker. Kimberly... more

Robert Mapplethorpe was one of the most famous photographers in the world—and one of the most controversial. When his work... more

In March 1990, a story broke that shocked the nation: George H.W. Bush had banned broccoli from Air Force One.... more

A middle-aged single dad in Chicago was outraged by all the cigarette billboards popping up in Black communities. In 1990,... more

Pizza Hut’s adventure in the Soviet Union was unlike any restaurant opening before or since. It involved a fleet of... more

Coming Wednesday Nov. 22, the sixth season of One Year covers 1990. It was a year when a controversial art... more

Ten years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, 25 women who’d been disfigured by the blast came to the United... more

Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine transformed America and the world in ways that seemed unimaginable. But in 1955, there was a... more

When Alaskans wanted their own mental-health facility, a rumor took hold all over America. This week, Evan Chung traces the... more

In the early days of television, women struggled to find their place. In 1955, they got it: forecasting the weather,... more

In 1955, the frontiersman Davy Crockett became the most famous man in America, more than a century after his death... more

The Cannon Street All-Stars dreamed of playing in the 1955 Little League World Series. Their biggest obstacle didn’t come on... more

Coming Thursday, August 31st, the fifth season of One Year covers 1955. A year when a team of 12-year-olds tried... more

In this Slate Plus episode, host Josh Levin and senior producer Evan Chung share behind-the-scenes stories from the making of... more

In 1942, federal officials targeted a group of Black Americans who were allegedly hoping for a Japanese invasion. They uncovered... more

Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan launched another attack on the United States. This time, Axis forces actually invaded, turning... more

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

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

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

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

Coming Thursday, October 20th, the fourth season of One Year covers 1942, the most tumultuous year in modern American history. We’re... more

In this Slate Plus episode, host Josh Levin and senior producer Evan Chung share behind-the-scenes stories from the making of... more

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

On May 16, 1986, a man with a bomb held an entire elementary school hostage in the tiny town of... more

In Seattle, a pack of voracious sea lions decimates the local fish population. When fireworks and an underwater air horn... more

Black residents of Indianola, Mississippi, were fed up with decades of separate-and-unequal classrooms. When a white outsider got hired as... more

Rumors about the legendary gangster Al Capone’s buried treasure transform an abandoned Chicago hotel into the center of the entertainment... more

This week, Evan Chung tells the story of the American teachers who competed for an unprecedented prize: a spot on... more

Basketball star Isiah Thomas had an audacious plan to transform Detroit: asking criminals to stay on the good side of... more

Coming Thursday, August 18th: The new season of One Year covers 1986, a year of swaggering excess on Wall Street... more

This is a reprise of the first episode of our season on 1977. Miami, 1977: Pop singer and orange juice spokeswoman... more

The first true online diarist got famous for blurring the lines between private and public life. She also paid a... more

In the mid-1990s, a bilingual pop song brought a huge amount of joy to a huge number of people. And... more

When a serial rapist struck Ann Arbor, Michigan, the police turned to drastic measures, based on the promise and power... more

In 1995, aspiring filmmakers created the first ever soap opera on the Web. Hollywood saw it as the future of... more

In 1995, an enormous scandal rocked the burgeoning field of reproductive medicine. This week, Christina Cauterucci tells the story of how... more

In 1995, a group of American teenagers crossed the Atlantic Ocean to attend one of the world's most prestigious universities.... more