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Silvio Berlusconi

Family Values, Bossi Style

Judith Harris

Umberto Bossi, founding father of the Northern League, resigned as head of his party last week. After 30 years of blaming Rome of robbing, it turns out that some in Bossi's...

Letters from Italy After Berlusconi: Politics Behind the Scenes

Judith Harris

"The man who governs Italy has no power. At most he can ask a courtesy, but he can’t give orders. [Mussolini] was right when he said that it’s not difficult to govern the...

Super-Sober Mario Takes Charge

Judith Harris

Premier-Designate Mario Monti is often described in the media as Super Mario or Sober Mario. His government has had the support of banks, universities and the Roman Catholic...

Fair Play is Over

Alice Bonvicini

On the Eve of the Italian local elections, Letizia Moratti, the Berlusconian mayoral candidate in Milan, slanders his opponent. A few hours later New York City is covered with...

Massimo Ciancimino: Dynamite in the Garden of Justice

Judith Harris

The three years of Ciancimino's testimony in three separate Mafia trials risk being compromised

Playing it for laughs

Judith Harris

Dissecting what may lie behind three recent Berlusconi's jokes. And the picture is far from amusing

Italian Church in a Political Quandary

Judith Harris

Italian bishops may not necessarily read every detail of the bungabunga phone taps filling the newspapers, but they know full well that Premier Berlusconi faces a judiciary trial...

At Lampedusa, “The End of the World”

Judith Harris

The Sicilian island where hope and desperation coexist has become a prime transit site for illegal immigrants hoping to make it into Europe

The Broken Promise: Fiscal Federalism

Judith Harris

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano refused to sign the bill on fiscal federalism, with comments that it was “unreceivable,” poorly drafted and generic. For Berlusconi the...

On Both Sides of the Atlantic, Pride in Anti-Mob Action

Judith Harris

While in New York nearly 125 are arrested in “the largest mob roundup in F.B.I. history," Italian Senator and former governor of Sicily Salvatore Cuffaro is sentenced to 7 years...

On the Disassembly Line at Fiat: A General Strike in the Works?

Judith Harris

Workers at Fiat's Mirafiori plant in Turin vote in a contested two-day referendum that will determine whether Fiat keeps open the historic factory

Can Italy Be Too Italian?

Judith Harris

In a recent article New York Times reporter Michael Kimmelman asked the bizarre question “Is Italy Too Italian?” suggesting that Italy is so tradition bound, insular and...

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