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Since 1982, Texas has executed 583 people, and one of them was Karla Faye Tucker. The pickaxe killer had a death row conversion and found the support of the biggest names in televangelism. Tucker’s story raises questions about the death penalty in Texas and the hypocrisy of the so-called pro-life State.

Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, professor and chair of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, has been running two long COVID clinics since early in the pandemic, and she says every case is different.

In 2020 there was a presidential election, a pandemic and protests for racial justice. This affected every corner of America. But what about in the small towns and cities that are often overlooked by national news? How do big stories change when they are told by local journalists? What is lost as this kind of coverage disappears?

Home to almost 27 million people, the California coastline is more than just an iconic part of the American landscape. There are ports, harbors and major cities that support a state that, if it were its own country, would be the fourth-largest economy in the world. Now climate change and a rising sea threaten to wipe out more than $370 billion in property by the end of the century. The economic damage would be far more devastating than the state’s worst earthquakes and wildfires.

Some of the laws that Donald Trump and others in his circle are accused of breaking resulted from the post-Civil War period when the Ku Klux Klan rose to terrorize the formerly enslaved. New federal laws were needed to protect the ballot box and fight white supremacy.

He’s one of the richest and more powerful people on the planet. And when Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, he took over one of the most influential platforms for news and free speech. PBS Frontline investigates how Musk’s platform, now named "X", is unleashing misinformation, racism, harassment and support for right wing political violence.