Mario Draghi

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 / 19 Apr 2022

The View From Torino

Ukraine is everywhere. Wherever you look, from newspapers to graffiti and TV, everyone is talking about it. (...)

Forza Nuova and the Roma Riots

The Green Pass is the Italian version of the EU Digital COVID Certificate. (...)

Coronavirus in Italian

Summer 2020 arrived late. Or at least that's the way we felt. We'd been stuck in Torino because of COVID since the end of February. (...)