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Can FEMA’s Flood Insurance Program Afford Another Disaster?
The National Flood Insurance Program is $23 billion in debt. Can it afford another big disaster?
May 24, 2016
"Business of Disaster": Behind the Numbers
How FRONTLINE and NPR calculated profits for the flood insurance industry.
May 24, 2016
Five Questions to Ask About Flood Insurance
Flood insurance is unlike most other types of coverage. So what does it actually protect you from?
May 24, 2016
How States and Cities Are Bracing for the Next Disaster
The threat from disasters may be growing, but preparations in many states are still hamstrung by politics, money and red tape.
May 24, 2016
Insurance Firms Profited $400 Million After Sandy
More than three years after Superstorm Sandy, NPR and FRONTLINE investigate the thousands still not home, the government agencies that failed to help and the companies that made millions.
May 24, 2016
FEMA Announces Reforms to National Flood Insurance Program
The proposed changes are meant to provide FEMA with better oversight over insurance companies, while offering consumers more help in the appeals process.
May 24, 2016
How Much Do Insurance Companies Profit After a Natural Disaster?
More than three years after Superstorm Sandy, thousands of survivors are still not home, despite billions of dollars spent on recovery efforts. Where did those dollars go?
May 24, 2016
New Plan Looks to Keep Superbugs from Killing More Than Cancer
Each year, drug-resistant bacteria, or "superbugs," kill 700,000 people worldwide. By 2050, experts warn, that figure could reach as high as 10 million, more than cancer kills today.
May 18, 2016
Nada Bakos: How Zarqawi Went From "Thug" To ISIS Founder
What if the rise of ISIS could have been prevented -- with just one airstrike? That's a question that Nada Bakos, a former CIA analyst, has had to grapple with ever since the group's brutal rise to power.
May 17, 2016
Colin Powell: U.N. Speech "Was a Great Intelligence Failure"
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of ISIS, was still an unknown jihadist during the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Colin Powell's 2003 speech to the United Nations would help change that.
May 17, 2016
David Petraeus: "No Substitute" for U.S. Leadership in Iraq, Syria
It took some time in Washington before anyone recognized that without U.S. leadership, Iraq could completely deteriorate, and Syria would spiral out of control, says the former CIA director.
May 17, 2016