by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 28, 2025 | Journal
I spent a few days in New York City this past week — and what hit me wasn’t what I saw.It was what I didn’t. The corner newsstands were shuttered and silent. I didn’t lay hands on a single print newspaper until my last day, when I stumbled across a few battered copies...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 21, 2025 | Journal
In the 1970s, I was in my 20s and locked in a long-running play-by-mail war game with a group of friends. It was one of those sprawling, imagination-fueled strategy games—light on rules, heavy on consequences. My fictitious country wasn’t the biggest or the boldest,...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 21, 2025 | Journal
Back in the 1950s, Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine with a team of fewer than a hundred researchers and about as much computing power as a toaster. No cloud servers, no AI, no billion-dollar grants—just lab coats, microscopes, and enough coffee to keep...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 18, 2025 | Journal
There he was—a preteen kid, hunched over a laptop in the middle of a family lunch, hammering away at a low-rent Mario knockoff like his life depended on it. He didn’t touch his food. Didn’t speak. Didn’t look up. When the battery finally gave out, his mother passed...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 17, 2025 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth
There’s a dangerous echo rolling through the immigration debate again—and this time it’s dressed up like progress. President Donald Trump has floated a proposal that sounds suspiciously familiar: Allow undocumented immigrants to return to work only after they leave...
