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Democracy’s night shall pass

Election by election, the growing consensus for populisms and a virulent opposition to democratic institutions have started a new historical phase for politics all around the World. The optimistic preconditions of a gradual global…

Le due pandemie e la cura cinese

L’Organizzazione Mondiale della SanitĂ  ha emesso un bollettino il 2 febbraio in cui denuncia l'esistenza di due pandemie: oltre al “2019-nCoV”, si è diffuso anche un tipo digitale di “virus” che porta con sĂ© informazioni false o fuorvianti…

A Political Diagnosis of the Coronavirus

The speed and massive scale of China’s response to the coronavirus “showed China’s efficiency and the advantages of China’s system”, said Tedros Adhanom, director-general of the World Health Organization, during a visit to Chinese president…

The crescent of uprisings

The past few months have seen a dramatic surge of unrest across the Middle East and Africa, from Sudan to Algeria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. In some of these countries the uprising, with the help of the army, dislodged long-time dictators, as…