by Isaac Cubillos | Nov 21, 2025 | Energy
In the first year of his second term, President Donald Trump cracked open the federal offshore like he was breaking a piñata at a kid’s birthday party. New drilling off California, Florida, Alaska, and deep into the High Arctic — places that haven’t seen a fresh...
by Isaac Cubillos | Nov 21, 2025 | Journal
The Pentagon just dropped a $700 million hammer on two little-known companies in Indiana and North Carolina—Vulcan Elements and ReElement Technologies—in a long-overdue bid to build something this country hasn’t had since disco: a real, functioning rare-earth magnet...
by Isaac Cubillos | Nov 15, 2025 | Journal
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...
by Isaac Cubillos | Nov 12, 2025 | Journal
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...
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...
