Abdul El-Sayed ’s victory in the Democratic primary for the Michigan Senate seat is set to have consequences that extend far beyond the borders of this Great Lakes state. This is not merely a defeat for the centrist MP Haley Stevens; it now represents the first major national litmus test to gauge whether the new […]

Donald Trump’s renewed fascination with Brussels and his Arctic ambitions, but sovereignty over marine resources remains the main obstacle. Read Nanni Schiavo’s first article on the referendum in Iceland by clicking on the link On 29 August, Iceland will return to the polls to vote on an issue that has divided the country since 2009 […]

‘Do you think they’re fabricating a Russian threat to convince us that we need to arm ourselves to the teeth?’ Speaking from the stage in Piazza del Gesù in Naples on 8 July, Giuseppe Conte uttered this sentence, to which he added, in the tone of someone who believes he knows a thing or two:‘They […]

During these hot, lazy summer days in late July and early August – filled with sand, sweat and the odd beer – I wearily tackled a number of sporadic reading projects: books I’d started and left half-read, snippets of old texts to savour once more, and a scattering of articles and papers that I skimmed […]

The protection and welfare of pets has become an issue that, over the years, has taken on significant social and political importance. The pet industry cuts across a range of sectors, from the economic to the social, including the world of work and higher education. Looking at some economic figures, the pet economy generates a […]

A few days ago, after almost seven years, I had to say goodbye to my Fairphone.A couple of nasty drops had broken the motherboard – the only part of the famous Dutch phone, with its replaceable and repairable components, that couldn’t be ordered or repaired.I won’t deny that I’d grown quite attached to it. For […]

Trump has taken the GOP by storm. But he risks undoing everything that made it great Whenever Donald Trump quotes Ronald Reagan, one can’t help but think that Reagan would be turning in his grave. Not because Reagan was a moderate, of course. He wasn’t. He was one of the most ideologically courageous presidents in […]

Italy is undergoing a silent but deadly crisis, the effects of which are manifesting themselves with the ruthless precision of financial mathematics. There is a chain reaction sweeping through the national economy, which the political class takes great care to avoid discussing. It is the short circuit caused by the demographic crisis – that is, […]

“We’ve come here solely for the sport and for the children. Football has the unique power to bring people together, to transcend borders and to offer a moment of joy, especially to children who dream of becoming footballers.” This is how Andrea Pirlo, in May 2026, explained the reason for his participation alongside Marco Materazzi […]

If there is one discipline in which the European political class – whether of a sovereigntist persuasion or with a supposedly liberal bent – deserves an Olympic gold medal, it is the triple somersault of consistency. Take a typical day in the corridors of power. In the morning, during yet another extraordinary summit in Brussels, […]

Over the past week, in Ukraine, we have witnessed something that is, to say the least, unusual for a modern country under martial law. It all began on 15 July, when President Zelensky announced an imminent government reshuffle. Rumours immediately began to circulate about the possible dismissal of Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, just six months […]

On Wednesday 16 July, Papua New Guinea’s Foreign Minister, Justin Tkatchenko, informed the Chinese Ambassador in Port Moresby, Yang Xiaoguang, of the decision to close Taiwan’s representative office in the country. The following day, he made the decision public in a statement posted on Facebook: “The physical presence of ‘Chinese Taipei’ will no longer be […]