Michael Kirk
Vladimir Putin's grudge with Hillary Clinton
When Vladimir Putin first took control of Russia, Bill Clinton was the US president. Frontline filmmaker Mike Kirk tells how Putin came to consider the United States an existential threat, how he consolidated his power to confront the US, and why launching a campaign to disrupt the 2016 US presidential election would not have been out of character.
Iraq is in serious trouble. Here's how it got there
Orwellian threats caused the New York Times to spike a story on NSA spying way back in 2004
New Documentary from PBS Shows the Brewing of a Debt Limit Battle
Documentary questions whether FBI ID'd right suspect in anthrax attack
A new documentary from PBS Frontline looks at the FBI's investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks and asks whether they found the perpetrator.
Was Bruce Ivins really behind the anthrax attacks after 9/11?
Dr. Claire Fraser-Ligget, whose lab did work for the FBI in this investigation, and Michael Kirk, producer of the new PBS Frontline documentary "The Anthrax Files," re-examine this closed case to see whether FBI indicted the right suspect.
Tracking health care reform from tea parties to the health care lobby
The battle over health care reform has come to define the beginning of Barack Obama's presidency, and some say he has bet his future on passing the bill. This week we may finally see the last chapter in the year-long battle.
Inside the Meltdown: A new film illuminates the economy's collapse
In a new FRONTLINE documentary, Inside the Meltdown, filmmaker Michael Kirk puts the pieces of the fractured economy's puzzle back together. He joins us to discuss how he threaded a narrative out of something that seems like its own abstract force.