by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 27, 2026 | Journal
President Donald Trump has renamed Lake Ontario. It is now, according to the United States government, Lake America. Well, sure. Why not? We have apparently reached the point in international diplomacy where the State Department can be replaced by a label maker. There...
by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 27, 2026 | Journal
In June 1984, I was driving north on the I-15 out of Las Vegas toward Utah when I came upon something I have never forgotten. The Virgin River was raging. Not flowing. Not meandering politely through the desert. Raging. It was red with silt, a muddy torrent cutting...
by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 25, 2026 | Energy
There is an old rule in journalism: when everybody is staring at the shiny thing, look behind it. The shiny thing these days is artificial intelligence. AI apps write. Generators make pictures. Computers create video, write software and answer questions. Wall Street...
by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 24, 2026 | Energy
I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was looking at a water crisis. I was in Colorado in June, driving through the Rockies, looking up at mountains that ought to have been wearing considerably more white. There was snow up there. Just not much of it. I took a...
by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 22, 2026 | Journal
For more than 80 years, the United States has maintained an unusual proposition: The government can pay journalists without owning their journalism. It was never a particularly comfortable arrangement. It wasn’t supposed to be. Voice of America was created...
