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The Frontline Interview: Yevgenia Albats
Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats on Trump, Putin and Russian election interference – as told to FRONTLINE during our reporting for “Putin’s Revenge.” Read, watch and explore the full, on-the-record interview.
October 25, 2017
WATCH: The Election Clash That Fueled Putin's Ire Against Clinton
For months, reports of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election have dominated the headlines. But as the new documentary "Putin's Revenge" explores, the story traces back long before the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton last year.
October 24, 2017
The Frontline Interview: Jon Wolfsthal
Jon Wolfsthal on Trump, Putin and Russian election interference – as told to FRONTLINE during our reporting for “Putin’s Revenge.” Read, watch and explore the full, on-the-record interview.
October 23, 2017
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War on the EPA
How Scott Pruitt went from fighting the EPA to running the agency and rolling back years of policy.
October 11, 2017
"This Was a Hostile Takeover": How the War on the EPA Was Waged
“It was eight years of pure hell under the democrat party and Obama,” Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energy Corp., tells FRONTLINE in an excerpt from the FRONTLINE documentary "War on the EPA." “But we won! It’s a wonderful victory.”
October 11, 2017
To Sway Scott Pruitt, EPA Experts Must "Hope Against Hope," Says Former Insider
Outside interests are having outsize influence over EPA chief Scott Pruitt, says Betsy Southerland, a former 30-year veteran at the EPA. What agency experts are "trying desperately to do," she says, is "hope against hope that their facts will change Scott Pruitt's mind."
October 11, 2017
Scott Pruitt Says That EPA Will Repeal the Clean Power Plan
The Trump administration says it will repeal the Clean Power Plan, but it has not released an immediate replacement, raising questions about how the agency will meet its obligation to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
October 10, 2017
As the Clean Power Plan Is Rolled Back, FRONTLINE Investigates How the "War on the EPA" Was Waged
As the Trump administration announces it will formally repeal the Clean Power Plan, FRONTLINE explores how and why this major reversal and other environmental policy rollbacks happened in "War on the EPA."
October 10, 2017
NRA Says It Will Back Efforts To Restrict Bump Stocks
The NRA's announcement, its first statement since the shootings in Las Vegas, marked a sharp break from the group's response in the wake of other mass shootings.
October 5, 2017
America's Partisan Divide Grew Wider Than Ever in 2017
America's political divide had already reached record levels during the Obama presidency, but according to the Pew Research Center, the partisan split between Democrats and Republicans is now the widest its been in more than two decades.
October 5, 2017
FRONTLINE Announces Fall Slate of Documentaries on Major Challenges Facing America, from North Korea, to the War on the EPA, to the Fight Against ISIS, to Russia
FRONTLINE's fall documentaries explore the mounting tensions with North Korea, the fight against ISIS, climate change and the EPA, and Vladimir Putin’s interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.
September 29, 2017
Coming in September on FRONTLINE
Watch the national broadcast premiere of "Abacus: Small Enough to Jail," and an encore presentation of the classic documentary, "The Man Who Knew."
September 1, 2017