by Isaac Cubillos | Jan 14, 2026 | Energy
Yesterday, I wrote about the oil glut—too much crude sloshing around the world, prices easing, and gas at the pump finally calming down. That’s the national picture. This is the local one, and it looks different depending on your ZIP code. In the Permian Basin, the...
by Isaac Cubillos | Jan 13, 2026 | Energy
The Energy Information Administration—those famously unexcitable federal bean-counters—has wandered into the room with a wet blanket and a calculator, and the news is not what the oil bulls or the “drill, baby, drill” crowd want to hear. According to the...
by Isaac Cubillos | Jan 13, 2026 | Energy
There was a moment in the White House this week that told you everything you need to know about Washington fantasy versus oil-patch reality. Donald Trump, freshly confident about Venezuela, sat across from the men who actually write the checks — and they gave him the...
by Isaac Cubillos | Jan 1, 2026 | Journal
A New Year’s look at how journalism changed, who paid the price, and what readers should watch next. I started in newspapers in 1987, at a daily in California, back when journalism was a physical activity. My first assignment was writing obituaries, which is about as...
by Isaac Cubillos | Dec 27, 2025 | Journal
On Christmas Day, the President ordered U.S. missiles fired from a Navy destroyer into Nigeria. The explanation came pre-loaded for television: protecting Christians from terrorists. It sounds moral.It sounds simple. It feeds his base. And it gets the war wrong....
