2011
June 12, 2011
On referendum weekend, Santoro steals the show
Despite the importance of the questions under debate, the shouting match on RAI TV’s Channel 2 on June 9, seen by 8.5 million televiewers, has overshadowed even the referendum...
May 30, 2011
For Berlusconi, the Tipping Point?
Mid-term elections: big changes for the major Italian cities. Milan turned left after 18 years with Giuliano Pisapia, Naples chooses former magistrate Luigi de Magistris
May 18, 2011
Elections: Earth Tremors in Milan
Last week the doom sayers predicted that an earthquake would flatten Rome. They got it wrong. The earth did shake, but the seismic shocks took place Sunday and Monday in Milan,...
May 13, 2011
When Elections for Mayor Become a National Bellwether
Of the 1,344 cities and towns which are to elect new mayors and city councils, pundits are watching the most crucial: Milan and Turin in the North, both cities grappling with...
May 10, 2011
The Bin Laden affair: “What will the U.S. do next?”
The Navy Seals’ dramatic killing of Osama Bin Laden gripped all of Italy and its media for two or three days
May 2, 2011
Bin Laden: A Thoughtful Vatican and a Concerned Italy
May 1, while in Rome Pope John Paul II is beatified, Al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden is killed in Pakistan. The reactions in the Italian political world
April 29, 2011
Massimo Ciancimino: Dynamite in the Garden of Justice
The three years of Ciancimino's testimony in three separate Mafia trials risk being compromised
April 25, 2011
Blasting Off the Nuclear Referendum (and Others)
What the moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants really stands for
April 11, 2011
Playing it for laughs
Berlusconi with two young women prize-winners at Palazzo Chigi
Dissecting what may lie behind three recent Berlusconi's jokes. And the picture is far from amusing
March 23, 2011
Free Speech in Italy: Enrico Mentana Speaks Freely
“We decided to have only serious news, without the slush of infotainment" says Enrico Mentana the chief anchorman of La Sette, the lone alternative to the Berlusconi TV chain...
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