The Inner Monologue

There are ideas that belong to history, and there are ideas that belong to the future. The Nigeria Food Resilience Compact should belong to the future. It does not exist—yet—but it should. Because the status quo is failing millions, and the world desperately needs a new framework for cooperation: one that treats developing nations as…

Every so often, a simple question slices through the noise of politics, religion, and moral posturing with the precision of a scalpel.One such question — so deceptively simple it borders on childish — is this: “What if they did that?” It sounds almost trivial, like something uttered in a playground argument. Yet it’s among the…

There is a certain irony to history that never fails to amuse the patient observer. Every generation celebrates its victories as final and its tools as permanent instruments of righteousness. But history, with a smirk, always reminds us that the instruments we forge to protect our tribe will one day be wielded by the other.…

It began, as most wars of color do, with someone pointing up and declaring, “See? Proof the sky is on our side.” The Council of Chromatic Truths The Red People had gathered at dawn — their favorite time, when the horizon burned with validation. “Look!” said High Cardinal Crimson, sweeping his arm toward the glowing…

Let’s talk about the two parallel universes that exist in every developed city—the World of the Workers and the Daytime World—because nothing highlights the crushing grind of capitalism like a Tuesday morning trip to the grocery store. The Daytime World: Where Time Has No Meaning (And Everyone Is Suspiciously Happy) Ever wandered into a supermarket…

It seems like a simple word problem — the kind that might appear on a middle-school math test. A retailer must choose between two trucks to transport goods from New York City to Los Angeles. One costs $1,000 a day and can go 100 mph; the other costs $1,200 a day but can go 120…

America’s national debt is often used as a political weapon, a rhetorical cudgel to bludgeon the other side for fiscal irresponsibility. Each election cycle, candidates rail against “runaway spending” and promise to restore balance, as if debt were the product of a single ideology gone astray. Yet the truth—buried beneath decades of campaign slogans and…

There’s a quiet irony in the RV lifestyle. It sells the promise of freedom, yet it often chains owners to monthly bills, maintenance schedules, and depreciating assets parked in expensive storage lots. The dream of waking up to mountain sunrises or desert horizons is genuine—but for most owners, those mornings come only about 30 days…

The uneasy question It’s an uncomfortable hypothesis — perhaps even impolite to say aloud — that peace in the Middle East has rarely, if ever, held except under secular Muslim rule. Yet history, stripped of sentimentality, keeps whispering that truth. Every time religion has grasped the reins of power in Jerusalem, Damascus, or Cairo, blood…