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Covid-19 has very been expensive in terms of budgets as well as lives. Rich countries have rightly ramped up their budgetary spending – and budget deficits – to keep their populations afloat and to spur a post-pandemic recovery. They have…

“Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing”, Winston Churchill supposedly once remarked. “After they’ve tried all the other alternatives.” Whether Churchill ever in fact said this (the evidence is “no”), it is even more…

Il premio Nobel Giorgio Parisi ci dice che “Tutto ciò che vediamo intorno a noi è un sistema complesso, compresi noi stessi. Nel cervello o nell'organismo i neuroni o gli organi si scambiano di continuo messaggi che influenzano il loro…

 L’incontro (virtuale) del 9-10 dicembre voluto dal Presidente Joe Biden era destinato fin dall’inizio a generare controversie, osservazioni critiche e mugugni. La critica più diretta e radicale è, naturalmente, che nelle relazioni…

The divisions in American society have grown to record levels in recent years, the result of a process of polarization that has taken place faster than in other democracies. We have heard a lot about "populism," "tribalism," and in general…