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Yippy Economics
Yippy Economics

Well now. We’ve officially reached the part of the movie where the script runs off the rails, the hero starts speaking in riddles, and the economy clutches its chest and reaches for the aspirin. The week began with President Trump pulling out his big, shiny tariff...

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Through Brown Eyes: A Tribute to the Roots of My Reporting
Through Brown Eyes: A Tribute to the Roots of My Reporting

I didn’t start out swinging. I started out writing obits. Back at The Daily Californian, my job was to memorialize strangers with brevity and dignity. No politics. No heat. Just names, dates, and silence. That’s how I learned to write—by confronting the end of stories...

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Why I Write
Why I Write

I didn’t launch Cubillos.com because I needed a hobby. I did it because I couldn’t stay quiet anymore. When you’ve spent as much time in newsrooms, with the military grunts, and city halls as I have, you start to recognize the signs of history circling back—this time...

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Isaac Cubillos

This isn’t journalism for the polite table.
This is truth with grit under its nails and dirt on its boots.