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May 29, 2019
Italy’s Right-Wing Demagogue Matteo Salvini Wins Big in the EU Elections
As in much of the rest of Europe, the left’s failures have opened the floodgates to extremism.
Frederika Randall
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EuropeJune 12, 2018
Matteo Salvini’s March on Rome
The head of the fearmongering, anti-immigrant Lega party has enormous power in Italy’s new government.
Frederika Randall
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Political IdeologiesFebruary 21, 2018
‘Shoot the Beasts on Sight’: The Far Right and Italy’s Elections
Their poisonous opposition to migrants, their loud rallies, and their fascistic violence dominate the run-up to the March 4 polling.
Frederika Randall
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EuropeDecember 6, 2016
This Fratricidal War of Ours: A Referendum Divides the Italian Left
The left seemed to have been infected by the mad-dog rhetoric of Beppe Grillo of the Five Star Movement.
Frederika Randall
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Health CareOctober 21, 2016
How I Found Heaven in a Public Hospital
Britain’s National Health Service is a cosmopolitan, welfare-state utopia—one that conservatives everywhere want to abolish.
Frederika Randall
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EuropeAugust 30, 2016
Italy’s Five Star Movement May Be the Heir to Mussolini’s Fascists
The party harps on the messianic theme of redemption for the betrayed, is allied with Britain’s far-right UKIP, and is controlled with an iron hand by leader Beppe Grillo.
Frederika Randall
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FictionAugust 10, 2016
Before the 1 Percenters, There Were the Uzedas
In The Viceroys, Frederico De Roberto’s novel of the Risorgimento, the Uzeda family corrupts everything it touches.
Frederika Randall
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WorldJuly 23, 2015
The Syriza Syndrome and Italy’s Political Establishment
Why doesn’t Italy, with its strong left-wing traditions, have a Podemos like Spain?
Frederika Randall
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Regions and CountriesJuly 16, 2014
Just How Left-Wing Is Italy’s New Prime Minister?
The old left sneers at the recently elected Matteo Renzi. But he’s already carried out undeniably redistributive measures during his brief tenure.
Frederika Randall
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EconomyMay 3, 2013
On the Raft of the Medusa: Italy’s Left
Hopes for a progressive government failed, thanks to suicidal divisions among the center-left and Beppe Grillo’s demagogic posturing.
Frederika Randall