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Bill de Blasio: A Progressive Mayor for All New Yorkers

Jerry Krase

Bill De Blasio I believe has the best chance among real progressives to win the mayoralty and to take New York City in a different, more hopeful direction. It’s time for New...

Local Elections Stun Pundits

Judith Harris

Local administrative elections this past Sunday and Monday in Rome and other key cities throughout Italy caught observers by surprise. The turnout was 20% lower than the last...

Political Suicide in New York City and Italy: Part II - NYC

Jerry Krase

New York City and Italy have a great deal in common, starting and ending with self-destructive electorates; voters who are intent on putting into office people who, in one way or...

The Grillini About to Hop into Parliament

Judith Harris

The famous Ides of March of ancient Rome fell on March 15, the day when the tyrannical Julius Caesar was assassinated in the building where the Senate was meeting. His assassin...

Shock Waves from Italian Elections

Judith Harris

In a globalized world, the gigantic wave laps on distant shores, and never have Italian voters generated so much outside interest as during the two days of national general...

Misery and the Elections in the Final Stretch

Judith Harris

As Leonardo Sciascia once said, it is easy to manage wealth, but hard to manage misery. These are tough times for Italy as elsewhere, and the sight of shops shutting down and...

2013 ELECTIONS FOR THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. RIGHT TO VOTE ABROAD BY CORRESPONDENCE

Pursuant to Presidential decree n. 226 of December 22, 2012, elections will be held on February 24 and February 25, 2013 to elect representatives to the Chamber of Deputies and to...

PD Primaries: A Vote for Democracy

Judith Harris

Over 3.1 million turned out to vote, with many waiting hours in line. Some of the 9,232 improvised polling stations, all staffed by volunteers, remained open into the late evening...

In Politics Money Talks (or Maybe Whispers)

Judith Harris

In Italy, pressures are mounting for earlier elections because of corruption scandals that have rocked the governments of Italy's two most important regions: Lazio and Lombardy....

Grillo's Sicilian Splash-Down

Judith Harris

Grillo's exploit Oct. 10 was the official launch of his party, Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5S), into the Sicilian regional election fray. In the event, Grillo had the last laugh,...

Rico’s Not On A ‘Rolla

Anthony Dion Mitzel

What has turned into a sort of Commedia all’Italo Americana for Santorum has shown that the Republican electorate can’t seem to figure out who they want to run in the general...

Treading the Muddy Political Waters

Judith Harris

Voting in three separate elections this May and June, Italians gave a black eye to the center-right government headed by the London Economist’s favorite Italian politician,...

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