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Why the U.S. Can’t Build Without China’s Minerals or Canada’s Steel
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...
Drill, Baby, Drill” Is Dead—and Wall Street Killed It
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,...
Kilmar Garcia’s Deportation Wasn’t a Glitch—It Was a Warning
You can say a lot of things about the Trump administration’s immigration policy. But “legal” sure as hell isn’t one of them. Let’s talk about Kilmar Abrego Garcia—a man with a Green Card, living in Maryland, protected by an immigration judge’s 2019 ruling that barred...
Deploying Troops for a Political Show: The Border Becomes a Stage
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...
Where Are the Shipyards?
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...
Steel, Strategy, and Shipyards: America’s Maritime Wake-Up Call
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...
Paper Cuts and Patriot Games: The SAVE Act’s Real Mission
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 U.S. House...
Two Americans and an Immigrant, Two Outcomes, One Rotten Truth
They say justice is blind. Maybe. But in America, justice sure as heck knows how to squint—especially when a brown face walks into view. Case in point: Paul Akeo and his wife Christy, two nice folks from Michigan who got nabbed south of the border after a resort tiff...
Parades Are for Dictators. Not Presidents.
Donald Trump is finally getting the one thing he's always wanted for his birthday—a military parade, with tanks and troops and all the bells and ballistic whistles. June 14. Not only is it Flag Day, but it’s also Trump’s birthday, which is fitting because the flag...
Isaac Cubillos
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