ICE inspectors found 49 deficiencies at Camp East Montana. The facility still passed. Behind those numbers are people depending on medical care, suicide safeguards, force reviews and a government system meant to protect them.
America’s debt has passed $40 trillion. You will not get a bill for your share, but rising interest costs can still shape what you pay and what Washington can afford.
Affordability, Medicaid, SNAP, Federal Budget, Pentagon, Department of Defense, Immigration, Congress, Trump Administration, Government Spending, Accountability
The question is not whether government can spend. It is what America chooses to pay for.
Donald Trump, Affordability, Cost of Living, Inflation, Grocery Prices, Healthcare, Tariffs, Gas Prices, AI Data Centers, Congress, 2026 Midterms, U.S. Economy
Nineteen months after Trump promised emergency price relief, IABY checks groceries, energy, healthcare, tariffs and household costs against the record.
A passing encounter with an older disabled man reveals the human life inside America’s food-insecurity statistics. His account is brief, anonymous, and unverified. The national failure is documented. By Roberto Zapatero Independent Forensic Investigative Journalist, Is America Better Yet? August 20, 2026 | Living Record | Verified through 2:38
Marc Elias, Democracy Docket, Elias Law Group, 2026 election, election law, voting rights, redistricting, Supreme Court, Trump, election integrity
Marc Elias is a Democratic election lawyer with a long record in recounts, voting-rights cases and Supreme Court litigation. His record includes major wins, losses and controversy. Here is why his warnings deserve scrutiny rather than automatic belief or dismissal.
The election lawyer says the danger is not one dramatic act. It is a series of changes involving voting rules, voter registration records and what could happen after ballots are cast. Some of what he warns about is prediction. But important parts of the machinery he describes already exist in
By Roberto Zapatero Independent Forensic Investigative Journalist Is America Better Yet? Living Record — August 18, 2026 A government does not always have to ban speech to make it disappear. Sometimes it only has to reach the company that controls whether people can see it, download it, publish it or distribute
Gaza, Israel, U. S
Gaza: The Unspoken Truth About What America Enables — Is America Better Yet? By Roberto Zapatero Independent Forensic Investigative Journalist Is America Better Yet? 9/11 cannot be erased. Neither can October 7. Some dates become more than dates. 9/11 is one of them. Americans do not need the year
By Roberto Zapatero Is America Better Yet? Updated August 16, 2026 You can stop eating out. You can cancel a streaming service. You can put off buying clothes. Electricity is different. Most of us need it every day. It keeps food cold, lights rooms, charges phones, runs appliances, powers computers,
Thousands of workers left FEMA. Its strategic plan was canceled. Staffing cuts were made without first determining how many people the agency needs. Now federal auditors warn that a major disaster could expose what has been lost. By Roberto Zapatero Is America Better Yet? Updated August 16, 2026 When a
By Roberto Zapatero Is America Better Yet? To our fellow journalists, reporters, editors, producers, photographers, photojournalists, correspondents, commentators, documentary makers, and other media professionals: Many people who spent years reporting the news are no longer working where the public first came to know them. Some were laid off. Some left