It’s Christmas Eve. Rome, especially at night, when traffic, chaos, and human hustle fade away, becomes beautiful and infinite once again. This year’s lights are grandiose: energy-saving measures and sustainability give way to the magnificence of the season. Today, Pope […]
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It went badly. Yes, indeed, it went badly. Certainly for those who had prepared a nice mainstream progressive liberal weekend: Salvini guilty, the inhumane government deporting poor immigrants to Albania, and NGO stars in the spotlight. Richard Gere on Fabio
After a long day of waiting, especially for him, Matteo Salvini, who was involved in the Open Arms trial, the verdict has arrived. Just in time for the 8 PM news. Jokes aside, what mattered was the substance—the decision of
For years, Italy has been grappling with the issue of absolute poverty, particularly during the heated debates over the “citizenship income,” a flagship policy of the Five Star Movement. Promoted as a symbol of their worldview and political vision, this
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Excessive celebrations, questionable protests—everything in Italian football sparks debate these days, for better or worse. Certainly, this benefits the hundreds of media outlets thriving off the sport, including myself, as I earn a living writing about it. But let’s set
Politics is changing rapidly, and old rituals are giving way to new communication strategies. Traditional party festivals had largely disappeared, swept away by the decline of historic parties and the meteoric rise of the quintessential anti-establishment movement: the Five Star
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Today I returned from Romania, shaken by the first European case of elections to be redone due to illegitimate Russian influence, only to find Milan in chaos. A public transportation strike—once again on a Friday. The Regional Administrative Tribunal (TAR)
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The risk is that he becomes a hero beyond the realm of objective facts and judicial chronicles. The global web narrative, with its lack of spatiotemporal boundaries—the very essence of the internet’s communication revolution—transcends the realistic confines and rituals of
In the end, the intuition was correct. Yesterday’s editorial about Meloni, based largely on a fleeting observation at the end of a dinner, has proven to be prophetic—journalistically speaking. According to Politico, an international outlet, Giorgia Meloni is now the
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First of all, I apologize to the families of the victims, the injured, and the missing from yet another workplace tragedy in Italy if this brief reflection might hurt their sensitivity. They have nothing to do with this; they deserve
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