As many of us have said, if Trump and his fascist friends have their way, ICE is going to be doing a whole lot more than ethnic cleansing. It's not going away unless we abolish it entirely. It will just keep growing. For example, how...
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Of the twenty regions of Italy, five are "special." Special, in this context, designates asymmetrical federalism; these regions have a different relationship with the central state than the non-special regions,.
You know, it's not like the U.S. couldn't do this too. In fact, we do when it comes to Chinese prison labor in supply chains. But we choose not to.
Speaking of the attempt to roll back gay rights, let's go to Italy, where the spirit of Mussolini, especially in the cities of northern Italy, never died and has now roared back with a vengeance. Padua--not exactly a place where one could say the rise...
Silvio Berlusconi was on my obituary list, but I didn't get a chance to write it before he died. Well, that's fine. I figure this site should have some post.
I would have thought that being dumber than the American far right was impossible, but the Italian far right manages to combine fascism with something far more insidious: fantasy novels..
This story amused the hell out of me: Who would have guessed that denizens of Italy, where pizza is an internationally recognized national treasure, wouldn’t have gone crazy for mass-produced, over-the-top American riffs on the country’s national dish offered by a multinational chain?Someone probably should...
Turns out that Amazon's tyrannical workplace regimes developed in the U.S. with its relatively weak labor laws and quiescent labor force aren't going over well in Italy. And there, workers.
Here's a statue that definitely doesn't need to come down. For centuries, in a picturesque Tuscan town near the Mediterranean coast, legions of pilgrims came to venerate one of Christendom’s.
There's a lot of uncertainty right now, whether about the economy, the pandemic, or the general political situation. We have a president who lies and deflects, making the inevitable noise associated with compounding crises even worse. So I think we need to focus for long...
Nothing is more likely to guarantee good science than sentencing those who allegedly missed an earthquake prediction to six years in prison.
Oh dear. One of the young women who attended Silvio Berlusconi's "bunga bunga" parties told a court on Friday that she dressed up as a burlesque version of U.S. President.