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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
DOT Researchers Suggested a Way to Make Big Trucks Safer. After Meeting With Lobbyists, Agency Officials Rejected the Idea.
The Department of Transportation allowed trucking lobbyists to review an unpublished report recommending a safety device that could save lives by preventing pedestrians and cyclists from getting crushed under large trucks.
June 22, 2023
Kids, Trauma and Mental Health
The mental health system in North Carolina isn’t designed to treat traumatized kids before they predictably worsen. WFAE examines how kids have to get sick before they can get help.
June 20, 2023
Texas After Uvalde
Maria Hinojosa, host of Latino USA and founder of Futuro Media, talks about examining the aftermath of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
June 16, 2023
After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics
A year after the Uvalde school shooting, FRONTLINE, Futuro Investigates and The Texas Tribune document the community’s trauma and the fight over assault rifles. Listen to the audiocast of the FRONTLINE documentary "After Uvalde."
June 14, 2023
Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court
As controversy erupts around Clarence and Ginni Thomas, FRONTLINE tells the inside story of their path to power. Listen to the audiocast of the FRONTLINE documentary "Clarence and Ginni Thomas."
June 14, 2023