Archive
Related Stories
Indian Health Service Head to Face Questions on Failure to Stop Doctor Who Abused Patients
Lawmakers summoned the U.S. Indian Health Service’s leader to answer for the agency’s failure to stop a pediatrician from sexually abusing his child patients and a slate of longstanding problems with the quality of the agency’s care.
March 7, 2019
Never Sentenced, Never Released
Across the country, hundreds of people are in prison even though they weren’t convicted of the alleged acts that landed them there. Sometimes, they’re held for decades. Today, the story of one such man.
March 7, 2019
The U.S. and North Korea On The Brink: A Timeline
The cycle of threats, talks and weapons tests is familiar territory for the United States and North Korea. We examine the turbulent history between the two countries in a timeline.
February 28, 2019
What A U.S.-North Korea Peace Declaration Could Mean For Key Countries
As the two leaders meet for a high-stakes summit, we spoke to experts about what a declaration ending the war would mean for the U.S., North Korea, and other regional players impacted by tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
February 27, 2019
What Happens When New Yorkers With Mental Illness Slip Through the Cracks
As the FRONTLINE documentary "Right to Fail" shows, for some New Yorkers with mental illness, the transition from tightly-controlled settings to the lower levels of supervision in supported housing can have dire consequences.
February 26, 2019
Behind “Right to Fail,” a ProPublica-Frontline Collaboration to Overcome Roadblocks and Privacy Restrictions
Here is how we navigated questions about consent, privacy and civil rights for three of the men whose stories appear in the documentary "Right to Fail."
February 26, 2019
"Seeded in Social Media": Jailed Philippine Journalist Says Facebook is Partly Responsible for Her Predicament
The arrest this month of Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, which experts believe is a retaliatory move for exposing violence-inciting fake accounts on Facebook linked to President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration, raises the question of the company’s culpability for her dangerous predicament.
February 25, 2019
Timeline: How the Crisis in Venezuela Unfolded
The humanitarian crisis in Venezuela may reach a flash point this weekend as political tensions escalate.
February 22, 2019
FRONTLINE Wins 2019 Writers Guild Award
Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser, the writing team behind FRONTLINE’s documentary "Trump’s Takeover," won the Writers Guild Award on Sunday evening.
February 19, 2019
“An Unusual Situation”: Experts Weigh in on Trump's National Emergency Declaration
After weeks of sparring with Congress, President Donald Trump invoked a national emergency Friday in an attempt to secure funding for a barrier along the United States’ border with Mexico. The declaration follows Thursday’s passage of a bipartisan spending bill that caps funding for the wall, a key Trump campaign promise, at just under $1.4 billion.
February 15, 2019
South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds Calls for Evaluation of Indian Health Service
U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, a South Dakota Republican, introduced legislation Thursday calling for a broad assessment of the U.S. Indian Health Service, following an investigation of the agency by The Wall Street Journal and FRONTLINE.
February 15, 2019