Priyanka Boghani
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A Timeline of China's Response in the First Days of COVID-19
Some of the key moments in the earliest days of China's COVID-19 outbreak. → Read More
How COVID Has Impacted Poverty in America
In the years leading up to 2020, the poverty rate in America had been on a gradual decline. But COVID changed everything. → Read More
Children in Poverty: By the Numbers
Children growing up in poverty were already dealing with difficult family circumstances when the coronavirus began spreading across the United States. → Read More
Q&A: America's "Invisible" Child Labor Problem
It's difficult to know the scope of unlawful child labor in America, and even more difficult to enforce the law, experts say, because federal regulators don't have enough resources. → Read More
How Poverty Can Follow Children Into Adulthood
Poverty can follow children into adulthood, affecting their long-term physical and mental health, and making it harder to finish school and climb out of poverty. → Read More
States Race to Secure Their Voting Systems Before Hackers Strike Again
Russian efforts to access voter databases and electoral sites during the 2016 campaign exposed critical gaps in America’s voting infrastructure. → Read More
What It Would Mean To Declare the Opioid Crisis a National Emergency
The foremost recommendation from a commission established by President Donald Trump to address the opioid crisis spiraling across the United States was that he declare the epidemic a national emergency. → Read More
A Housing Affordability Crisis That's Worse for the Lowest Income Americans
Households with the lowest incomes face the biggest shortage of rental housing that is both affordable and available. → Read More
Reducing Solitary Confinement, One Cell At A Time
More than 30 states have moved to reduce their use of solitary confinement as prison hunger strikes, lawsuits and activism have brought new scrutiny to the mental health effects of isolation, and the risks that freed prisoners might pose following long-term exposure to solitary. → Read More
Can President Trump keep his promises to coal country?
From 2011 to 2015, the coal mining industry lost more than 26,000 jobs, one of the reasons why many miners saw Trump's election as a moment of hope. → Read More
ICC Prosecutor Says U.S. May Have Committed War Crimes in Afghanistan
The International Criminal Court says that American forces and CIA officers subjected at least 88 detainees in Afghanistan to techniques that amounted to war crimes. → Read More
Who's Next To Borrow from America's Drone Strike "Playbook"?
Fifteen years ago, the United States was the only country to have ever carried out a drone strike. Today, that’s no longer the case, and 19 countries either have armed drones or are trying to acquire them. → Read More
"Deradicalization" Is Coming To America. Does It Work?
Tens of thousands of foreign fighters have traveled to join ISIS and other extremists groups in Iraq and Syria. What happens when they return home? → Read More
Russia Is Drawing Down In Syria. Will Its Leverage Go Too?
Russia's intervention in Syria has reshaped the dynamic of the war. But will a drawdown mean less leverage over the Assad regime? → Read More
Can Syria’s Rebels Be Brought into the Political Process?
As diplomacy on the Syrian war moves forward, international powers are trying to answer the question of how to bring the rebels fighting on the ground into the political process. → Read More
Why Afghanistan’s Children Are Used as Spies and Suicide Bombers
In a country that has experienced nearly endless conflict for more than 30 years, Afghan children have regularly been recruited to join armed groups on both sides of the battle line. → Read More
The Rise of ISIS – FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE investigates the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS. → Read More
The Rise of ISIS – FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE investigates the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS. → Read More
A Campaign of Disappearances in Syria Leaves Thousands Missing
At least 65,116 individuals have been "forcibly disappeared" by the Syrian government, according to a new report by Amnesty International. → Read More
ISIS in Afghanistan: School of Jihad
The emergence of ISIS in Afghanistan has introduced a new level of brutality to the conflict, beyond what has been practiced by the Taliban. → Read More