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Afghanistan, Two Years After: Taliban Repression and Humanitarian Crises Intensify
FRONTLINE takes a closer look at the state of Afghanistan — from the economy to women’s rights and humanitarian crises — two years after the Taliban’s takeover.
August 15, 2023
An Aging America Continues to Face a Shortage of Care 17 Years After FRONTLINE’s ‘Living Old’ Documentary
Nearly two decades after FRONTLINE’s documentary ‘Living Old’ premiered in 2006, America's geriatric population is still growing — and still facing many of the same challenges.
August 8, 2023
Following Donald Trump’s Indictment, a Look Back at Efforts to Overturn the 2020 Election
FRONTLINE has built a unique public record, in documentary format, of the former president’s impact on American life, politics and democracy — including the aftermath of his refusal to concede his 2020 presidential loss to Joe Biden.
August 3, 2023
Still Here: Cycling Between the Jail and the Mental Health Hospital
WFAE's series began with the story of John, a 32-year-old man living with severe mental illness and intellectual disabilities. He was arrested more than five years ago, but he’s remained in custody and never had a trial. WFAE was finally able to speak with him a few weeks ago.
August 1, 2023
How One Alabama County Declared War on Pregnant Women Who Use Drugs
Our partner The Marshall Project examines how some women were prosecuted for
smoking marijuana before they even knew they were expecting.
July 26, 2023
These States Are Using Fetal Personhood to Put Women Behind Bars
Our partner The Marshall Project investigates how hundreds of women who used drugs while pregnant have faced criminal charges — even when they deliver healthy babies.
July 25, 2023
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