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During the 2008 US presidential campaign, my European colleagues often asked me, “is a woman or a black man more likely to win the Democratic nomination?” I had the feeling it was a question they already had an answer to: Considering the…

Il 2 aprile è stato il giorno di Sizdah Be-dar in Iran, l’ultimo del no-ruz (il capodanno persiano), dedicato tradizionalmente dalle famiglie ai picnic e alle gite familiari. Una giornata quindi particolarmente importante per gli iraniani,…

What started with the popular “Wall Street vs Main Street” metaphor during the global financial crisis turned more recently into a war of words that put “the middle class” front-and-center in a fight where Republicans and Democrats alike…

La crisi politico-istituzionale dello Yemen sta obbligando gli Stati Uniti a ridefinire interlocutori e tattica di counterterrorism nel Paese per contrastare Al-Qaeda nella Penisola Arabica (AQAP). Secondo numerose fonti, Washington avrebbe…

Despite inflicting severe pain on the economy, and therefore on ordinary Russians, sanctions imposed by Western states on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis have had the opposite effect: instead of weakening the domestic power base of President…