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ABOUT THE SITE

About WHYAMERICASUCKS.COM

This page states what the site publishes and how investigations, stories, source stacks, and standards fit together.

Site Standards

Policy And Context

These pages exist to make the publication model legible instead of burying legal and trust information in a dark corner.

Section 01

What the site is trying to do

WHYAMERICASUCKS.COM is an investigative editorial site built around public records, visible sourcing, and issue pages that stay tied to the documents behind them. The project is built to make systemic stories legible: wages, housing, healthcare, political money, media power, environmental extraction, and the corporate structures profiting from each.

Section 02

How the publishing model works

Investigation pages hold the source stacks, issue timelines, and verified metrics that anchor later stories. The stories layer turns those records into readable reporting without severing the link back to the underlying filings, datasets, agency releases, and official tables.

Section 03

Bylines, updates, and review dates

The site uses desk-based credits instead of fake personal bios. Each credit names the part of the publication process that handled the work. Publication and update dates remain visible so dated claims can be read against the timeline of the underlying record.

Section 04

What the site is not

This is not a generic outrage feed, and it is not a substitute for legal, medical, or financial advice. Pages should distinguish between sourced findings, active reporting threads, and unresolved questions. Where a claim cannot yet be supported cleanly by the record, the site aims to say that plainly instead of backfilling certainty.

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How Credits Work

Desk-level credits identify the reporting, records, and standards roles behind a piece without inventing personal biographies.

Desk 01

Editorial Desk

Shapes coverage priorities, issue framing, story packaging, and publication decisions across the site.

Sets the scope of public-interest coverage

Connects stories back to the larger investigations layer

Owns headlines, framing, and publication timing

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Desk 02

Records Research Desk

Builds stories from filings, agency releases, datasets, hearing records, financial disclosures, and public-source documentation.

Pulls the record trail behind each story

Translates raw filings and datasets into readable reporting

Keeps claims tied to source stacks instead of unsupported narration

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Desk 03

Standards Review

Checks wording, sourcing boundaries, update paths, and correction risk before publication or revision.

Reviews whether claims overreach the public record

Checks correction and update paths on live pages

Pushes the site toward clearer sourcing language

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