Fault Lines

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We live in a world run through with Fault Lines. Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines takes you beyond the headlines and holds the powerful to account as we examine the US’ role in the world. Contact us at FaultLinesTips@aljazeera.net

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51 Years Behind Bars
We investigate why Tennessee imposes the longest sentences in the US for juveniles convicted of murder.
Published On 8 Jun 2022
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Shadow System: LA’s secretive sheriff ‘gangs’
Fault Lines investigates allegations of violence and intimidation by deputy ‘gangs’ within the LA Sheriff’s Department.
Published On 11 May 2022
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A Toxic Feed: Social media and teen mental health
Fault Lines investigates whether social media exacerbates America’s youth mental health crisis.
Published On 4 May 2022
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Buried Truths: America’s Indigenous Boarding Schools
Fault Lines on the consequences of a century-long US policy designed to dispossess Indigenous children of their culture.
Video Duration 30 minutes 28 seconds
Published On 24 Nov 2021

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In the western United States, climate change deepens a conflict over water between farmers and Indigenous tribes.

Fault Lines reports from Honduras on how climate change is upending lives and increasing migration.

An exclusive investigation exposes how US gun laws have failed to prevent domestic abusers from killing their partners.

Fault Lines investigates the racist past and ongoing impact of non-unanimous jury convictions in US state of Louisiana.

During a massive winter storm, why did the state’s power grid fail millions of Texans?

In Florida, survivors of domestic violence can lose custody of their children. Is the state blaming victims of abuse?

At a Georgia immigrant detention center, women accuse a gynaecologist of performing procedures they did not consent to.

Fault Lines follows homeless families in Los Angeles who take a bold risk by moving into vacant houses.

Fault Lines asks what the US Capitol riots and their aftermath signal for the Republican party’s future.

We examine how the pandemic’s effect on Black and Latino communities exposes deep racial inequities in a divided city.

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51 Years Behind Bars

Shadow System: LA’s secretive sheriff ‘gangs’

A Toxic Feed: Social media and teen mental health

Buried Truths: America’s Indigenous Boarding Schools

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When the Water Stopped: An Oregon town at its breaking point

Exit Honduras: A climate in crisis

Unrelinquished: When America’s gun laws fail abuse victims

The Jim Crow Convictions

The Texas Blackout

Failure to Protect: How domestic violence separates families

No Consent: Did a doctor abuse immigrant women?

Shelter in Place: LA’s fight for housing in a pandemic

Capitol attack: Where will the GOP go after Trump?

The Great Divide: COVID-19 and race in Chicago

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