When he was 29 years old, Stephen Heywood was diagnosed with ALS — also called Lou Gehrig’s disease — and told he had two to five years to live. But Stephen and his family refused to accept the ...

It’s one of the hottest industries in America — and with adult movies, magazines, retail stores, and the growth of the Internet — business is booming. The Bush administration has pledged a new attack ...

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 ...

Much of the world was shocked when militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) took over Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, in June. One of the many factors that allowed the group of Sunni ...

A part of the story of America’s political journey from President Barack Obama to President Donald Trump was the rise of racial anger — as seen in the crude, racist stereotypes of Obama that showed up ...

Above, a still from the July 2021 FRONTLINE documentary “Leaving Afghanistan.” Amid the U.S. withdrawal, Taliban leaders claim Iran is mobilizing its proxy militia the Fatemiyoun for civil war within ...

The next president of the United States will inherit some of the greatest foreign policy challenges in American history — an overstretched military, frayed alliances, and wars on two fronts. FRONTLINE ...

Twenty years ago, the George W. Bush administration expanded its “war on terror,” launched in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, to Iraq. In his March 19, 2003, address announcing the ...

The 2017 hurricane season was unlike any other. First came Hurricane Harvey, followed a little more than two weeks later by Hurricane Irma. The storms swept through multiple states and caused an ...

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In 2014, as unrest in Ukraine provoked one of the biggest confrontations between Russia and the United States since the Cold War, FRONTLINE documented the crisis up-close. Drawing on personal and ...

Tuberculosis was once thought to be a disease of the past. But with virulent new drug-resistant strains emerging faster than ever, TB — passed simply by a cough or a sneeze — is the second leading ...