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The Gospel According to the Parking Lot
The Gospel According to the Parking Lot

On the Treasure Coast, faith feeds people. On Facebook, it just yells at them. I had breakfast with a couple of my neighbors yesterday — the kind of people who make you feel like you wandered into a better America for an hour. Kind. Steady. Religious in the way our...

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Feed the People, Follow the Law
Feed the People, Follow the Law

The SNAP ruling isn’t judicial activism. It’s the Constitution doing exactly what it was built to do: stop any president from treating the national budget like personal property. The thing about the American government is this: we built the whole machine on the...

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China Targets U.S. Shipyards In New Pacific Power Game
China Targets U.S. Shipyards In New Pacific Power Game

China has imposed sanctions on several U.S.-linked affiliates of South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean, including the historic Philly Shipyard, in what U.S. officials are calling a blatant attempt to disrupt American-South Korean cooperation in shipbuilding and defense...

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The Ice Road is Real — And the U.S. Better Pay Attention
The Ice Road is Real — And the U.S. Better Pay Attention

The Istanbul Bridge, a Chinese-owned Panamax container ship, just pulled off what many in the Pentagon used to call “science fiction.” It sailed from China to the UK — through the Arctic — and docked at Felixstowe on Oct. 13 after a 20-day run. That’s not a typo....

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The Future That Showed Up Early
The Future That Showed Up Early

In the early 1990s, I sat down with Dr. David Hayes-Bautista at UCLA to talk about a provocative book he had just published: The Burden of Support. At the time, the national conversation about Latinos in America was dominated by deficit thinking — stories about...

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The Machines Just Lapped the Nerds
The Machines Just Lapped the Nerds

You know the ICPC, the International Collegiate Programming Contest? It's an annual academic bloodsport where the brightest college coders on the planet cram into hotel ballrooms and try to outsmart the universe in five hours flat? Well, this year, the real winner...

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Isaac Cubillos

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