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Mussolini's Jews: How Il Duce bewitched Italy's Jewish communities
For nearly two decades, millions of Italians, and thousands of Jews, believed in Benito Mussolini as the man to make things ...
80 years after Benito Mussolini’s death, what can democracies today learn from his fascist rise?
Mussolini’s rise shows that strongmen are only as powerful as the democratic opposition allows. Failing to take them ...
The National Interest22h
From Rome to Tripoli: The Mattei Plan’s Blueprint for Italy’s Geopolitical Ascendancy
Italy’s geopolitical ascendancy is prefigured around developing closer hydrocarbon ties to Libya via energy giant ENI.
80 years after liberation, Italian anti-fascists deserve more than solemn remembrance
The Italian Resistance offered an entire generation the chance to make radical choices, to decide not only on their deeds but ...
Jacobin23h
An Italian Communist in the Ethiopian Resistance
Italians celebrate liberation from Fascism. One leading partisan was Ilio Barontini, a Communist who helped lead Ethiopia’s ...
The Economist2d
Why Italy’s defence spending lags far behind
T he mood when Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, met Donald Trump on April 17th could not have been sweeter. Mr Trump’s ...
Stars and Stripes3d
Navy port calls in Libya end half-century lull as US seeks to fortify North Africa presence
The Navy’s first port calls to Libya in more than five decades this week, to Tripoli and Benghazi, likely are intended to ...
Foreign Affairs4d
Mobility Economies in Europe’s Borderlands: Migrants’ Journeys Through Libya and the Mediterranean
Achtnich sometimes drowns her informants’ insights in academic jargon, but she also lets them speak and convey in often painful detail the quandaries they face.