The Battleground / 22 May 2023
Giorgia Meloni, Serial Racist Part II
The ChatGPT Sessions
The apple never falls far from the tree. Particularly when it comes to post-fascist parties.(...)
Benito Mussolini
John Foster / 31 Mar 2023
Italy After Neoliberalism
Mussolini’s Grandchildren, by David Broder
Giorgia Meloni’s election win in September 2022 was a watershed moment in history. Coming from Italy’s postfascist right, Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) was the first party to overcome the antifascist nostrums that had been integral to European politics since 1945.(...)
The Battleground / 17 Mar 2023
Giorgia Meloni, Serial Racist
The ChatGPT Sessions, Volume 1
By community standards, his trip was a failure. Italian Jews protested Netanyahu's visit, and the community's leader, Noemi Di Segni, excoriated him for the settler pogrom in Hawara and for undermining Israeli democracy.(...)
Nathan Akehurst / 30 Sep 2022
Mussolini’s Ghost
The Italian Future Past
Four days before Mussolini’s ghost came back, a friend and I raced through the high-walled alleys of Venice in dazzling afternoon sunshine.(...)
Joel Schalit / 26 Sep 2022
The Week Before the Election
Photographing Italian Politics
Few Italian elections since the turn of the millennium have felt more like the twentieth century than this one.(...)
Josh White / 14 Feb 2022
Quick to the Punch
The Sins of The Daily Express
The Daily Express Building still stands at 120 Fleet Street. It's a monument to a different era in British journalism. (...)
Josh White / 13 Dec 2021
Government Press Outlet
Boris Johnson’s Spectator
The office of The Spectator is a short walk from the House of Commons. This is apt given its relationship with the British establishment.(...)
Basilio Korman / 22 Oct 2021
Coronavirus Hijackers
Forza Nuova and the Roma Riots
The Green Pass is the Italian version of the EU Digital COVID Certificate. (...)
Sean Quinn / 14 Feb 2020
How to Stop Salvini
Enter the Sardines
"I thought this was supposed to be a movement of young people? Everyone's our age, even older. So far."(...)
Matt Rubenstein / 31 Jan 2020
Changing the Historical Record
Gdánsk’s Museum of the Second World War
Located at the intersection of two channels emanating from the scenic Motława River, Gdánsk’s recently opened Museum of the Second World War has quickly become one of the city’s main tourist attractions.(...)