by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 15, 2025
You can’t build a military without minerals.You can’t win a tech war without magnets.And you can’t bluff your way through a crisis when your opponent controls the raw materials and the map. Welcome to the rare earth trap.And as of April 4, the trap has been sprung. In...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 14, 2025
You can almost hear the silence in the oil fields. Not too long ago, “Drill, baby, drill” was more than a campaign slogan—it was the energy gospel for a certain flavor of American politics. Black gold, job creation, oil independence, wave that flag. And for a while,...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 13, 2025
President Trump’s latest order to hand the Pentagon control of federal land along the southern border reads like the fever dream of a late-night cable host. He’s calling it a “Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 13, 2025
You can write all the executive orders you want. You can form task forces, launch action plans, and declare a new era of American shipbuilding. But before we start pouring steel and painting hulls red, white, and blue—we’ve got to ask a basic question: Where the hell...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 13, 2025
On April 9, the Trump administration signed an executive order promising to “restore America’s maritime dominance.” A grand idea—if your definition of dominance includes spreadsheets, interagency working groups, and rebuilding shipyards that have long since been paved...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 12, 2025
They’re not bringing back poll taxes or literacy tests. Not out loud, anyway. No, these days voter suppression shows up in a suit and tie, carrying a stack of papers and shouting about “election integrity.” Case in point: the SAVE Act—a bill passed by the...
