Trump’s Primetime Speech July 16, 2026. You Don’t Have To Hear It, It’s better Read

We had transgender for everybody, men in women's sports, crime ravaging our cities, and the whole world was laughing at us as a nation. But not anymore. Two years ago, our country was dead. Now, we are the hottest country anywhere in the world.

BEAN TO BRAND, TARIFF TO TRAP by Lawson Akhigbe

Next in Abuja, four governments will do something that sounds, on paper, like a belated act of economic self-respect. Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon between them the source of roughly two-thirds of the cocoa that becomes the world's chocolate will sign the Abuja Declaration and stand up a Cocoa Value Addition Alliance, a coordinated attempt to stop shipping out raw beans and start capturing some of the value that currently accrues, almost entirely, to everyone else. Nigeria will additionally sign its own Cocoa Value Addition Accord, a domestic compact roping in governors, farmer groups, financiers and researchers into the project of turning bean into brand rather than bean into someone else's bar.

The Senate’s Glass House: When “Belling the Cat” Involves a Flying Circus by Lawson Akhigbe

There is an old fable about a group of mice who came up with a brilliant plan to outsmart a predatory cat: simply tie a bell around its neck so they’d always hear it coming. The plan was flawless, right up until one wise mouse asked the killer question: "Who is going to bell the …