Feb 06 Watch 10:24 Why Trump’s focus on MS-13 might be making them stronger By PBS News Hour President Trump calls members of MS-13 “monsters” and “animals,” a common talking point for his administration’s crackdown on immigration. What do we know about the brutally violent gang, its origins and ties to the politics of immigration? PBS’s Frontline shares… Continue watching
Jul 20 Watch 17:32 Yemen is in ‘complete meltdown’ and civilians are paying the price By PBS News Hour The almost three-year conflict in Yemen has killed thousands, and spurred a severe cholera outbreak, plus critical food and medical care shortages. We take a look at the crisis with a documentary excerpt from PBS's Frontline, then Judy Woodruff learns… Continue watching
May 16 New video shows undercover FBI operation against Bundy family By Abby Ellis, Sarah Childress and Richard Rowley, FRONTLINE In a never-before-released video, FBI agents posing as documentary filmmakers can be seen running an undercover operation to investigate a Nevada ranching family whose fight with the federal government sparked an armed uprising and rallied militias from around the country. Continue reading
Feb 21 President Trump promised California farmers he would ‘start opening up the water.’ Can he? By Michelle Mizner, Katie Worth Though California is a famously blue state, its agricultural heartland beats red. This is slowly changing as the valley diversifies and urbanizes. Continue reading
Oct 21 Watch 9:44 Why student debt is ‘a crisis’ for some borrowers By PBS News Hour Student debt has been a prominent topic during this year's presidential campaign, with several candidates touting plans for tuition-free college. Indeed, more than 40 million Americans carry debt from student loans, totaling around $1.3 trillion nationally. While the median debt… Continue watching
Sep 27 Watch 8:59 Think you know Clinton and Trump? New documentary gets inside the candidates’ past lives By PBS News Hour “The Choice 2016,” a Frontline documentary, takes an up-close and detailed look at the lives of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Starting their stories when they were children, producer and director Michael Kirk lays everything out on the table. Judy… Continue watching
Mar 14 Watch What job growth? Voters remain pessimistic about the economy By PBS News Hour This year’s election has been dominated by economic anxiety, though the nation’s unemployment rate is at its post-recession lowest and there have been six consecutive years of job growth. As a joint project of the NewsHour, American Public Media’s Marketplace… Continue watching
Mar 14 Introducing ‘How the Deck Is Stacked’ By Deborah Clark, Raney Aronson-Rath and Sara Just In the run-up to the November elections and continuing through the presidential inauguration in January 2017, we at APM’s Marketplace, FRONTLINE and PBS NewsHour bring you “How the Deck Is Stacked” -- a series of collaborative, multiplatform reports investigating this… Continue reading
Feb 04 New link between Zika virus and microcephaly is found in Brazil By Katie Worth, FRONTLINE Researchers say they've found some of the clearest evidence yet of a direct connection between Zika virus and microcephaly, a condition afflicting fetuses and newborns in Brazil. Continue reading
Feb 02 Watch 6:25 Does federal review lead to real police department reform? By PBS News Hour The Justice Department plans to review the San Francisco Police Department after a fatal shooting of an African-American man in January. While that city requested the review, across the nation, there have been many others not undertaken voluntarily. Sarah Childress… Continue watching