Dan Rather Reports

It's been said that war changes everything. Dan Rather Reports looked at American soldiers returning from conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan and how their lives were forever changed. For the wounded, advances in technology have saved thousands of lives, but is the government prepared for the long-term cost of treating returning vets?

Who's really running Washington? Lobbying our elected officials has grown into a billion dollar industry. Dan Rather Reports investigates the "shadow government."

Dan Rather Reports talks to a former FEMA worker who was convicted of accepting a bribe from a government contractor. The impact of the big storms that hit the Gulf Coast a year ago were felt far beyond New Orleans. This is the story of rebuilding without federal help, down on the bayou.

A talk with noted historians about the Presidency of George W. Bush and how he will be viewed against others who've sat in the Oval Office.

Dan Rather interviews former General John Batiste about President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq; a family pays tribute to a fallen hero; and dramatic footage from Mt. Hood with an elite search and rescue team.

Once the icon of American industry, Ford Motor Company finds itself falling fast in the eyes of consumers who are flocking to imports. The company has been forced to lay off thousands of workers as car building moves to cheaper foreign plants.

Dan Rather Reports examines the alarming consequences of the overuse of antibiotics. Every year, more than 90,000 Americans die from superbugs that antibiotics cannot treat; these antibiotic-resistant infections, caused directly by the overuse of antibiotics, cost us more than $35 billion a year. We'll also investigate the role that doctors, patients, and American culture itself play in precipitating this crisis. But while resistance continues to threaten American lives, one country has managed to remain a safe haven from superbugs. We visit Norway, a global leader in prudent antibiotic use, and the nation with the lowest rate of antibiotic-resistant infections in the world. Dan Rather investigates how Norway has achieved what for so many others, would be nothing more than a pipe dream.

This Emmy-nominated report attempts to explain a chaotic year and a half for the Detroit Public Schools, looking at how the situation was ever allowed to become so dire and exposing the incredible obstacles facing the students who never quit fighting to succeed there. "A National Disgrace" is an eye-opening amalgam of historical documentary, investigative journalism, unflinching exposé and personal spotlight, detailing the apathy, corruption, and ultimate collapse of the tumultuous 2009-10 academic term when the state of Michigan took the drastic step to impose new leadership on the district. The result is a searing, tragic portrait that forces us to ask ourselves: does the situation in Detroit reflect our estimation of public education? Rather it seems the true "national disgrace" is instead our own willingness to accept that the places we send our children could ever get this way in the first place.

Training Afghans to protect their country has become a multi-billion dollar mission of the United States military. But will the Afghans fight? An investigation into what happened to a group of Afghan and NATO soldiers when they came under enemy fire at a remote outpost. Plus, a conversation with the American general in charge of training Afghan troops.

Live election results of the nation's first 2012 presidential primary from Manchester, New Hampshire.

In just 30 years, Finland transformed its school system from one that was mediocre and inequitable, to one that consistently produces some of the world's best students, while virtually eliminating an achievement gap. And they do it without standardized testing.

One man's quest to document how the Asian appetite for shark fin soup is decimating the ocean's shark populations.