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The Roads to Rome by Catherine Fletcher; Italy Reborn by Mark Gilbert reviews – the long path to prosperity

Fletcher’s epic and witty study unearths the history of the Roman roads and their hold on our imagination, while Gilbert celebrates Alcide De Gasperi, the postwar Christian Democrat politician whose passion for democracy energised a country scarred by war and Mussolini

The Guardian - UK

‘How could my mother leave her baby and then kill herself?’: author Maria Grazia Calandrone’s quest for answers

At eight months old she was left on a blanket in the Villa Borghese, Rome. More than 50 years later, prize-winning poet Maria Grazia Calandrone set out to discover the truth behind her abandonment

The Guardian - UK

Trump is trying to run from Project 2025

Trump's campaign issued a statement distancing the former president from a plan drawn up by former staffers

Salon

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Why Trump loves violence — and needs it

Fascism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat says MAGA violence is a grave danger — no matter how the 2024 election turns out

Salon

Repentance review – dreamlike satire from Soviet Georgia brings life to Stalinist ghosts

1980s black comedy unravels the brutal legacy of a despot who is as ludicrous as his crimes are appalling

The Guardian - UK

No shortcuts when assessing Hunter power options

"It's crucial we look at all opportunities for the Hunter's future with an open mind"

Newcastle Herald

The roots of Trump's megalomania

Experts on Trump's God complex and the roots of his megalomania

Salon

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A "legal revolution" is brewing

"It is clear that a second Trump term will be quite different from the first"

Salon

NY Times "sugarcoats" Trump "Nazi talk"

"Do better," critics urge after the Times buried Trump's alarming "vermin" rhetoric

Salon

Antisemitism infects Donald Trump

"Preserving democracy requires unmasking and countering these deceptions"

Salon

Italy bids farewell to Silvio Berlusconi, but remains in his shadow

Italy held a national day of mourning for Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul who was Italy’s longest-serving prime minister since Mussolini, after his death this week. Thousands turned out for his state funeral – but the country is far from united on the man who remade Italian politics in…

Radio France Internationale

Dictatorship? How Hitler, Stalin and Trump show it’s easier than you think

Andrea Chalupa discusses her graphic novel, co-authored with Sarah Kendzior, about authoritarianism and its dangers

The Guardian - US

Which three current national capitals have hosted the Winter Olympics? The Saturday quiz

From Mussolini to Mecca, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The Guardian - UK

75 years, 10 mayors: How Sun-Times coverage of City Hall evolved

The newspaper has praised and scourged the city’s chief executives for three-quarters of a century.

Chicago Sun-Times

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The Independent UK

Italy begins to reckon with Fascist-era colonial collections

Italy is starting to come to terms with its Fascist-era colonial past and the loot it has in its museums

The Guardian - UK

Willie Landels obituary

Advertising art director who went on to become editor of Harpers & Queen, from its launch in 1970 to 1985

Salon

Trumpageddon is upon us

Trump has been channeling Hitler and Mussolini with threats of "retribution" and revenge for his followers

The Guardian - UK

Steven Spielberg says antisemitism today is ‘standing proud with hands on hips like Hitler’

The director, whose Oscar-nominated film The Fabelmans depicts the racial abuse he faced in the 60s, said he was very surprised by its current resurgence

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Giorgia Meloni – Europe’s unlikely new political superstar

If not for the stench of coming out of a post-fascist movement, the new Italian prime minister would now probably be fêted internationally as a new-style, young, female leader, argues Oliver Hartwich

Salon

Florida is now a laboratory for fascism

There is a very specific reason why Gov. Ron DeSantis targeted African-American history for erasure

The Conversation

Dante was the founder of Italy’s right wing, claims culture minister – an expert explains why he’s wrong

“Dante was the founder of right-wing thinking in our country,” proclaimed Italy’s culture minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano, at an electoral meeting of the prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s party, Fratelli d’Italia, in January.

Los Angeles Times

Guillermo del Toro and the 'joyous melancholy' of the 'Pinocchio' song 'Ciao Papa'

In the animated "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio," the titular wooden boy decides he must leave home — and his beloved father, Geppetto — with a ragged traveling circus in the hopes of earning needed funds for the family. He's shown onstage (voiced and sung by young Gregory Mann) performing a…

Inverse

How Guillermo del Toro’s 'Pinocchio' became the darkest musical of the year

Co-screenwriter Patrick McHale talks about writing songs with del Toro, why they chose to include Benito Mussolini, and more.

Daily Mirror

Iran leader's niece slams her uncle's 'child-killing regime' amid mass protests

Farideh Moradkhani said people in Iran are fighting the regime’s "Satanic forces of evil" with remarkable courage and called on the world to support Iran’s "lions and lionesses"

The Guardian - UK

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio review – a superbly strange stop-motion animation

The director of the Oscar-winning The Shape of Water has turned the timeless fable into a magical Mussolini-era parable

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