against sensationalist headlinesAn Italy that is vibrant and capable of responding to emergenciesIstat figures show a country at the forefront of protecting its people, even in the face of the exceptional heatwave of June 2026byRoberto Volpi1 OCT 26
The ‘yes’ that doesn’t ring truePlummeting marriage rates in Italy: nowhere else in Europe do people get married less often than hereThe paradox of marriage: it is mainly couples who already have children who tie the knot. In this way, rather than broadening the horizons for their children, marriage increasingly narrows thembyRoberto Volpi21 SEP 26
Shocking statisticsThe 1800s: a time of famine and cholera. How we were after Garibaldi, Cavour and the ThousandSo much for glorious and fabulous times. A unified Italy wanted to get to know itself better and discovered a disaster: a country that was poor, sick and plagued by infant mortality. The two major investigations into the lives of peasants and the sanitary conditions in the municipalitiesbyRoberto Volpi31 AUG 26
The analysisThe Albanian exodus to Brindisi and CeutaThe arrivals in ’91 seemed like an emergency. Today, the figures point to a structural phenomenon and serve as a reminder to Italy – which acted on the basis of fear rather than reality with regard to the Spanish exclave – that it needs migrantsbyRoberto Volpi15 AUG 26