by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 23, 2025 | Journal
While Ukraine engineers battlefield drones in garages and China advances AI-controlled naval fleets, America’s Army and Navy are still learning the basics. Literally. This past month, two stories landed back-to-back, each quietly underscoring a larger and more...
by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 5, 2025 | Journal
Back in the day, before motorcades and scandal headlines, before Bill Clinton played sax and Newt Gingrich decided to choke the soul out of public service, Henry Cisneros and I went to the same Catholic school on the West Side of San Antonio. He was in fourth grade. I...
by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 5, 2025 | Journal
Back in the early ’90s, I was chasing California politics the way a hungry dog chases a meat truck—press pass in one pocket, notebook in the other, and always with a half-empty tank of gas and a deadline that didn’t care about traffic on the 5. One particular night in...
by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 1, 2025 | Journal
Well, hell. Here we go again—dancing on the nuclear tripwire with the grace of a rhinoceros in a tutu. Today, Donald Trump—commander of all that he surveys, including apparently basic naval doctrine—announced with great fanfare that he’s sending two nuclear submarines...
by Isaac Cubillos | Jul 19, 2025 | Journal
You’re being distracted. Again. Today’s headlines? More Epstein documents and the cancellation of Colbert’s late-night show. That’s your “news.” A dead man’s secrets that will never be fully revealed, and a television host who once poked power before being absorbed by...
