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Andrew Spannaus

Andrew Spannaus is a freelance journalist and analyst based in Italy. He is the elected Chairman of the Milan Foreign Press Association and the founder of Transatlantico.info, that provides news and analysis to institutions and businesses. His book “Original Sins: Globalization, Populism, and the Six Contradictions Facing the European Union” is due out in April 2019.

Hanging on: Joe Biden and the 2020 presidential challenge

Joe Biden's candidacy for the White House has been a long time coming. He first ran in the Democratic primaries in 1988, and then joined the race in 2008 as well, before being picked as the vice presidential candidate by Barack Obama. He…

Trump’s Middle East predicament

Donald Trump is at it again: he is trying to prove to his supporters that he is serious about pulling American troops out of the Middle East, as promised during the 2016 election campaign. And once again, the national security institutions…

Alexander Hamilton: a guide to US economic rebirth?

One thing should be clear from the populist explosion of the last few years in the United States and Europe: the effects of globalization on the middle class are real, having brought a profound transformation in the nature of the industrial…

Is there a Euro-Atlantic populist wave?

In 2016, the world began to change, with the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump. In both cases, there was a revolt of the voters, an insurrection of ‘regular people’ against the structures of political and media power, that…

A question for the XXI Century: Time to tax the rich again?

After the orgy of wealth concentration that has accompanied the outsourcing of production and the weakening of the middle class, it is time to tax the rich again. At least that is what progressive/populist politicians on the left are…

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