Why Italy may never be quite the same again. ... The balloting on Sunday and Monday simply wiped out small parties, which have haunted Italy's infamously unstable politics for 60 years.

Italy has a different political history from America. It also has a different political history from Germany. Italian fascism was a monstrous crime, but it was not exactly as monstrous as German ...

Italy will hold a snap national election on Sept. 25 after Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigned following the collapse of his national unity government, sending tremors through financial markets.

Far-right political leader Giorgia Meloni takes spotlight in Italy's general election Scott Simon talks with Cecilia Sottilotta, assistant professor of international relations at The American ...

Giorgia Meloni, 45, who is on course to become Italy’s youngest and first female prime minister after Sunday’s election, does not fit into neat definitions. Her meteoric rise is perhaps best ...

In Italy, entrepreneurial profit is not a measure of development but of rents paid by the middle class to an elite increasingly determined to hoard wealth rather than produce it. The true significance ...

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Italy’s Politics Go to the Beach For decades, immigrant peddlers have been part of the familiar fabric of the Italian summer vacation. It’s no longer so simple.

The lesson for Italy is that its messy politics are no longer local. They could wind up irrevocably destabilizing the European Union, of which it was a founding member. Recommended Reading.