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Putin's Crisis
America's Dangerous Trucks
How Recent State Laws Are Making It Harder to Sue Trucking Companies After Crashes
Texas, Florida, Iowa and other states have passed new laws backed by trucking industry lobbyists that can limit crash victims’ ability to bring lawsuits or cap the compensation plaintiffs can win.
July 12, 2023
‘Dangerous Trucks’ on America’s Roads
A conversation with A.C. Thompson about 'America's Dangerous Trucks,' underride crashes and how regulators failed to act for decades.
July 7, 2023
Trapped Under Trucks
For decades, federal safety regulators ignored credible scientific research and failed to take simple steps to stop gruesome roadway crashes involving heavy trucks. Meanwhile, the bodies piled up.
June 13, 2023
What Is An Underride Crash And Why Is It So Dangerous?
To better understand how underride crashes happen, FRONTLINE spoke to collision reconstruction experts, personal injury lawyers and truck safety advocates.
June 13, 2023
Clarence Thomas and the Supreme Court
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The Iranian Uprising
A Year After the Uvalde Shooting
After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics
May 30, 2023
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A year after the Uvalde school shooting, FRONTLINE, Futuro Investigates and The Texas Tribune document the community’s trauma, efforts to heal and the fight over assault rifles.
After Uvalde, Gun Safety Groups Amped Up Spending in Texas This Year, But Will Still Likely Be Outspent
June 2, 2023
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For Women, ‘A Very Different Afghanistan’
Martin Smith and Marcela Gaviria on the end of the war in Afghanistan, and the return of harsh restrictions for women.
May 3, 2023
Amid the Taliban’s Worsening Crackdown on Journalists, News in Afghanistan Is Forced to Adapt
With news outlets facing more censorship and restrictions from the Taliban, Afghans are turning to social media and citizen journalism for information.
April 25, 2023
Humanitarian Needs in Afghanistan Deepen as Taliban Continues Ban on Women Working for NGOs, UN
FRONTLINE examines how the Taliban’s ban on women working at NGOs has affected the distribution of aid amid several humanitarian crises, how it impacts Afghan women-led households and how it could influence international fundraising.
April 25, 2023
Documenting America’s 20 Years in Afghanistan
Martin Smith and Marcela Gaviria discuss “America and the Taliban” and look back on two decades of reporting in Afghanistan.
April 20, 2023
"This was the first time in more than 20 years of Vladimir Putin’s rule in which there was a serious challenge to the monopoly of power of the state ..."
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Documenting the Siege of Mariupol
Behind the scenes of the award-winning documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” with director Mstyslav Chernov and FRONTLINE editor Michelle Mizner.
July 21, 2023
Miami’s Model for Defendants With Severe Mental Illness
As WFAE has been reporting, locking up defendants with serious mental illness can make their mental health worse. It’s expensive, and it's often not very effective at reducing crime. In Miami, public officials have been managing defendants with mental illness very differently.
July 18, 2023
How Recent State Laws Are Making It Harder to Sue Trucking Companies After Crashes
Texas, Florida, Iowa and other states have passed new laws backed by trucking industry lobbyists that can limit crash victims’ ability to bring lawsuits or cap the compensation plaintiffs can win.
July 12, 2023
What the Wagner Group Mutiny Reveals About Putin’s Grip on Power
“It reveals that the emperor has no clothes,” journalist Peter Baker says of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s armed mutiny in the opening scene of ‘Putin’s Crisis,’ a FRONTLINE documentary releasing July 11. “And if you’re Putin, you’re looking around that room and you’re saying, ‘Which of these people has a knife in his belt? Which of these people might be thinking about moving on me next?’”
July 11, 2023
‘Dangerous Trucks’ on America’s Roads
A conversation with A.C. Thompson about 'America's Dangerous Trucks,' underride crashes and how regulators failed to act for decades.
July 7, 2023
How North Carolina Hopes to Cut the Waits for State Psychiatric Hospital Beds
WFAE has been exploring the crisis brewing in North Carolina’s mental health system. That includes a shortage of state hospital beds. Now North Carolina is piloting a program it hopes will alleviate the crisis.
July 6, 2023
A Message From FRONTLINE's Editor-in-Chief and Executive Producer
Raney Aronson-Rath discusses two major, unfolding stories, one abroad and one at home: 'I hope you will find time to watch an unflinching documentary out of Iran, as well as our deep archive of work surrounding the Supreme Court decision today.'
June 29, 2023
‘Don’t Be Afraid’: How Schoolgirls in Iran Helped Fuel a Protest Movement
After the deaths of two teen girls who’d attended anti-government protests in Iran, schoolgirls across the country began to hold protests of their own. Watch an excerpt from the new documentary ‘Inside the Iranian Uprising.’
June 29, 2023