by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 22, 2026 | Journal
For more than 80 years, the United States has maintained an unusual proposition: The government can pay journalists without owning their journalism. It was never a particularly comfortable arrangement. It wasn’t supposed to be. Voice of America was created...
by Isaac Cubillos | Aug 19, 2026 | Journal
Every once in a while, a chart tells you something Washington has spent several trillion dollars trying not to notice. I was looking at one the other day showing the world’s largest cities from 1950 into the future. Back in 1950, the list looked reassuringly...
by Isaac Cubillos | Jul 22, 2026 | AI
Back when I taught programming, I always began with the same lesson. “The computer is dumb.” It wasn’t an insult. It was a warning. A computer doesn’t think. It doesn’t improvise. It doesn’t know what you meant. It only does what...
by Isaac Cubillos | Jul 14, 2026 | AI
There’s an old saying that when the engineers start worrying about the bridge, it’s probably time for everyone else to stop arguing about the paint color. That may be where we are with artificial intelligence. For the past few years, the AI conversation...
by Isaac Cubillos | Jul 12, 2026 | AI
Politics has always been full of surprises. Every so often, you look up from your coffee and discover that people who spent years arguing with one another have somehow wandered into the same room carrying the same sign. Welcome to the latest chapter in America’s...
