Claudio Cerasa

When is the vote? What about the primaries? And the Court? Bringing order means looking for common threads capable of uniting people who are far apart, but it also means trying to establish, on the playing field, some useful markers to help find one’s bearings. Ideas, after Il Foglio’s party

Wiretaps used for political gain, a media witch-hunt and an unlikely ‘fuck you’ to the culture of punishment. After Ranucci, Scarpinato: the M5S senator, a former magistrate, is discovering first-hand the damage caused by the media-judicial circus

In the 2022 general election, the centre-right had promised an ambitious reform: a presidential system. Over time, this idea was watered down, first into a semi-presidential system, then into a ‘premierato’ system, and finally into a reform that provides for the nomination of the prime ministerial candidate in the coalition’s manifesto.

Resilient democracies, growing economies, record-breaking trade and new frontiers in scientific research. At Il Foglio’s tenth Festival of Optimism, a guide to seeing the glass as half full. Because the future is built on facts, not on a culture of whingeing

It is more constructive to protest over rents and classrooms than to chant from the river to the sea. However, care must be taken not to pursue anti-capitalist battles that cast private individuals and their investments as part of the problem rather than part of the solution.

A one-sided look at the ‘Mamdani model’, at the activist and anti-capitalist left-wing movements that demonise Israel. The common-sense policies of the European left are ignored or rejected because they are ‘right-wing’. Is this to be the agenda of the broad coalition?