Patrice Taddonio

In January 1968, when Nguyen Qui Duc was 10 years old, the war between communist-run North Vietnam and non-communist South Vietnam was in full cry, with China and the Soviet Union backing the ultimately victorious North, and the U.S. and allies supporting the South. On Tet, a Vietnamese holiday marking Lunar New Year, Communist troops launched a surprise offensive that proved to be a key turning point in the war. Among the South Vietnamese cities and towns attacked was Hue, where Nguyen lived.

When she was 13 years old, Dolly’s father trafficked her into prostitution in India. He “didn’t mean to do it,” she told FRONTLINE. “He was a drug addict. You know what people do when they’re on drugs.” In a 2004 documentary short, Dolly described the first moments after her father sold her into commercial sex work, many aspects of which are illegal in India.

Months into his second term, President Donald Trump welcomed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House. It had been seven years since a Saudi hit squad murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in an operation U.S. intelligence assessed MBS had approved.