This isn’t spin. It’s seasoned analysis.
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...
Meta’s AI Chief Bets the Future on Machines That Think, Not Talk
I’ve always had a soft spot for science and engineering—the kind of curiosity that used to keep me up at night in high school, tinkering with circuits and reading about physics long before I understood the math. My mother thought I’d grow up to be an engineer, and for...
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...
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...
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....
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...
America’s Slipways for Sale: How We Are Outsourcing the Arsenal of Democracy
South Korea’s HD Hyundai says it wants in on American shipbuilding. That’s right: the world’s biggest shipbuilder, already running circles around us in commercial yards, is sniffing at buying a U.S. yard to feed President Trump’s new “revival” plan for American...
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...
Government v. Free Speech: When the Right Embraces Cancel Culture
I commit the First Amendment every day. I write, I publish, I dissent. So do you. Every text, every post, every gripe at the bar is protected by the same amendment. That’s the deal in America: speech is speech. You don’t need a license. You don’t need permission. But...
Isaac Cubillos
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