Trump’s legacy will be profound: his impact as an unconventional politician, the way he turned the Republican Party upside down, the extreme polarization it’s brought to American society. Biden’s hardest work is ahead
Month: November 2020
PARIS — Watching the non-stop coverage of the U.S. election, a line from Shakespeare kept flicking at my mind. It’s a grim image from that tragic tale of love, hate and disinformation, Romeo and Juliet: “A plague o” both your houses! They have made worms’ meat of me.” Now, the graphic allegory was unfolding on […]
La Stampa Editor-in-Chief Massimo Giannini spent a week in ICU with severe effects of COVID-19. Still in quarantine, he’s back following the news — and less than impressed.
By prematurely declaring victory, while the counting of votes is still ongoing, Donald Trump is taking a leaf out of an autocrat’s playbook.
Pollsters told us that Donald Trump would pay a heavy price for his mismanagement of the pandemic. What will happen with other world leaders?
Germany has made the airing out of closed spaces a centerpiece of its recommendations for limiting contagion. Others, including the CDC, are also touting the benefits.
Most Tunisian men in the Sicilian port town of Mazara del Vallo work in the fishing industry. But while they’re out at sea, their wives stay home, where the rules of tradition leave little room for integration.
In the midst of America’s election limbo, our Milan-based writer looks back on the first U.S. campaign he followed — from up close — and wonders what comes next.
As the world waits for the final results of the 2020 U.S. election contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, newspaper front pages around the world capture the “uncertainty”, the “chaos’, the “tension”, the “suspense” and the “division” … USA The Washington Post The New York Times Chicago Tribune USA Today Daily News The Denver […]
Narcissists, sociopaths, hypomaniacs and more: from Trump to Erdogan and Duterte, the debate on the stability of government leaders has become increasingly relevant. Labeling them as mentally ill or giving too much power to psychiatrists is dangerous.
New Zealand’s referendum last month to legalize recreational marijuana use was the first time a country put the controversial topic to a popular vote. Initial results point to a narrow defeat of the measure, which would still leave Uruguay and Canada as the only countries to fully legalize cannabis at a national level. Still, in […]
-Analysis- PARIS — It was the kind of headline that risks fading into your news feed as if it were barely news: “Ivory Coast: As Presidential Election Approaches, International Criminal Court Worries About Violence,” Jeune Afrique magazine announced last week. And so it followed, as votes were cast this past weekend in President Alassane Ouattara’s […]
While populists toughen their positions and beat their chests, the deep-seated weakness of their policies is driving everything.
It’s said to be cultural differences, but what separates the success of countries in East Asian and Oceania is above all a question of policy choices.
The leaders of the Islamic Republic say the economy will soon improve. But the numbers — the result of sanctions but also decades of economic mismanagament — paint a far more dismal picture.