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  • Problem cars, plant closures and a legacy of arrogance: is what's good for GM good for America? This investigation explores Detroit's influence on capitol hill and its lasting effects on the environment.

  • CIR provided reporting assistance and production support for this one-hour documentary that focuses on the national debate over 'jobs vs. the environment' and the anti-environmental movement that this conflict has unleashed.

  • This documentary investigates into the dumping of U.S. military toxic waste at the Subic Bay and Clark air bases in the Philippines. This report reveals that the U.S. had refused to accept responsibility for tons of military and industrial waste it left behind after the bases were closed.

  • In 1992, a year when the presidential campaigns cost $400 million, CIR investigates the behind-the-scenes money givers who finance the presidential campaigns and the access and influence they gain with the candidates. Correspondent Robert Krulwich follows the largest contributors to the Bush and Clinton campaigns and traces the impact money has on American politics.

  • "The Politics of Power" examines the story of our nation's failed energy policy. Correspondent Nick Kotz investigates the role the Bush administration and key congressional committees played in creating a national energy policy that remains guided by special interests, calls for the controversial revival of nuclear power, and leaves America increasingly dependent on foreign oil supplies.

  • One of the most important jobs of the Professional Liabilities Section of the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), the federal agency responsible for overseeing the S&L bailout, is to recover some of the hundreds of billions of dollars from the officers and directors of thrifts who acted fraudulently or negligently.

  • Peter and Dolores Green, African-American professionals, are suing a Chicago-area bank for refusing to finance their purchase of the home they have lived in for 30 years. Correspondent Bill Schechner finds mortgage-lending discrimination a systemic problem in America's financial institutions.

  • In 1992, a year when the presidential campaigns cost $400 million, Frontline, in a co-production with the Center for Investigative Reporting, investigates the behind-the-scenes money givers who finance the presidential campaigns and the access and influence they gain with the candidates.

  • The biggest financial disaster in US history continues. Four years into the process of selling off failed savings and loan assets, the Resolution Trust Corporation, the federal agency charged with managing the bailout, hasn't stopped the rising cost - estimated at $600-700 billion in taxpayers' dollars and climbing.

  • Each year, more than 750,000 American school children are paddled, caned or whipped with belts - all in the name of discipline. Although corporal punishment is banned in the public schools of most developed countries, it is still legal in 28 states of the US.

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