by Isaac Cubillos | Nov 6, 2025 | Journal
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...
by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 17, 2025 | Journal
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...
by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 14, 2025 | Journal
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....
by Isaac Cubillos | Oct 10, 2025 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth
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...
by Isaac Cubillos | Sep 21, 2025 | Journal
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...
