A journey through the Obama Presidential Centre in Chicago, caught between nostalgia for the America of Barack and Michelle and the desire for a left that finds itself looking to the past to envisage a response to the Trump era. Six floors of memory, politics and resistance, with the present constantly bursting in from outside

The former Defence Minister and architect of the Ulivo coalition told Il Foglio: “The time has come for Schlein and Conte to talk to each other, looking each other in the eye”, starting with foreign policy and the leadership of the coalition. To the Democrats: “Enough of these shenanigans. The PD’s faction leaders seem to want to weaken the party leader”

On the left now, in order to avoid the ‘gazebos’, they are hoping that the new electoral law will not be passed: “Fontana, Romeo, Zaia and Fedriga will not give up the single-member constituencies”. Meanwhile, other suggestions for third-party candidates are emerging

Roberto Speranza provokes: “Primaries would be an own goal. Let’s put an elderly partisan or a newly-of-age young person forward as the prime ministerial candidate.” But this is merely the latest in a long series of outbursts on the subject. September is here and the left have still not decided who to vote for, how to vote and, above all, whether to vote at all

The former Iena presenter and candidate for the presidency of the Sicily region in 2027 has 1 per cent support nationally; his appointment as president of Progetto Civico is intended to revitalise the movement that dreams of becoming the centre of the broad political spectrum. But Renzi remains a stumbling block