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Brett McGurk: U.S. Has Not "Turned a Corner" Against ISIS
"I would be the last one to say that we've turned a corner," says Brett McGurk, the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL. "This remains a lethal terrorist organization."
October 11, 2016
Who's Who in the Fight Against ISIS?
While the U.S. has maintained a narrow focus on degrading and ultimately defeating ISIS, competing agendas among a group of eight key players involved in the fight have served to complicate that effort.
October 11, 2016
Q&A: Inside the Making of "Confronting ISIS"
Martin Smith has been covering terrorism and the Middle East for more than 15 years. But telling the story of who's "Confronting ISIS" was a process like no other.
October 11, 2016
Why Beating ISIS in Mosul Won't End the Threat of Attack
American and Iraqi forces are gearing up for another big fight against ISIS, but victory may not matter much in the overall battle to eradicate the terrorist group.
October 11, 2016
WATCH: Inside the Awkward U.S.-Saudi Alliance Against ISIS
Tonight, "Confronting ISIS" explores how U.S. priorities have clashed with those of our regional allies in the Middle East -- including Saudi Arabia, which the U.S. has long depended on for oil, but which is also the birthplace of Wahhabism.
October 11, 2016
Coming in October on FRONTLINE
This month, FRONTLINE brings you two new documentaries on the fight against ISIS, an encore presentation of "The Choice 2016" and more.
October 4, 2016
Watch: Inside the Bailout that Saved a Collapsing Trump Organization
In the wake of revelations about Donald Trump's 1995 tax return, take a close look at when bankers bailed out a collapsing Trump Organization in the early 1990s.
October 3, 2016
How the Deck Is Stacked: The Cost of College Debt
Across the nation, many individuals feel as though they're drowning in student loan payments, yet some experts argue that the idea of a "crisis" is overblown. Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal takes a 360-degree look at the problem, in the latest video in our "How the Deck Is Stacked" collaboration with Marketplace and PBS NewsHour.
September 30, 2016
When Going To College Becomes a Financial Risk
For a generation of students, the college years coincided with rising prices and stagnating middle class wages.
September 30, 2016
The Choice 2016
September 28, 2016
The FRONTLINE Interviews: "The Choice 2016"
In reporting The Choice 2016, FRONTLINE conducted dozens of interviews over hundreds of hours in order to better understand the people, moments and forces that have shaped Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. FRONTLINE is publishing 18 of these conversations. Taken together, this collection offers new insights into who the candidates are -- and how they might lead as president.
September 27, 2016
The FRONTLINE Interview: Nancy Bekavac
Hillary Clinton and Nancy Bekavac were in a small cadre of women attending Yale Law School in the early 1970s. Visiting Clinton in Arkansas in 1974, Bekavac was taken aback by the role women played in public life -- while men talked politics, women stayed "at the table with the Jell-O," she says. In this interview with FRONTLINE, Bekavac discusses what it was like to be part of a trailblazing group of women at Yale Law School, her long friendship with Hillary and the price she says Clinton has paid for being a pioneer.
September 27, 2016