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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.

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.

This month, FRONTLINE brings you two new documentaries on the fight against ISIS, an encore presentation of "The Choice 2016" and more.

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.

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.

For a generation of students, the college years coincided with rising prices and stagnating middle class wages.

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.

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.

Jim Dowd was tapped to manage publicity for "The Apprentice" and its star, Donald Trump, before the show premiered in 2004. This introduction of Trump to the rest of America was "the beginning of [a] potential political career," he tells FRONTLINE. "Oddly enough, firing people on television each week made him likable."

Famed "Washington Post" reporter Carl Bernstein calls Hillary Clinton "the most famous woman in the world." In his biography of Clinton, "A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton," Bernstein examined her family, faith and record. In this interview with FRONTLINE, Bernstein discusses Clinton's relationship with her parents, the influence of a Methodist pastor who shaped her world view as a teenager, and a secret that Clinton kept for more than 30 years.

Nikki Haskell claims to be the first television producer to have interviewed Donald Trump, and has been friends with him ever since. Haskell helped Trump make connections in New York: "How else are you going to become an important person if you don’t hang around important people?" she remembers telling him in this interview with FRONTLINE.