Only the politically hopeful might imagine that a lovefest would occur when Joseph Biden met Vladimir Putin at Geneva.  This was not an encounter of yesteryear, always at Geneva, when both Reagan and Gorbachev could welcome the transformation of the Soviet “Evil Empire” then underway. Both leaders then mistakenly believed...

My take on the Mario Vaudano “indictment” of Andreotti is that the former judge’s account  reeks of what is basically  wrong with the Italian magistracy system. Vaudano’s memory, however accurate it may be historically, is not just self-serving, it is also a powerful example of guilt-by-association, guilt-by-innuendo, guilt by indirection,...

In quello che scrive Vaudano non c'è una sola riga, nemmeno una piccola evidenza provata, che reggerebbe in un tribunale onesto e non politicizzato... Andreotti non piaceva a Washington, probabilmente perché non era disposto a farsi guidare dagli Stati Uniti. Fece spesso infuriare gli americani, perché voleva che l'Italia seguisse...

Italian Harvard Economist Alberto Alesina died of a heart attack. He was in an excursion on a Mountain with his wife Susan, when he suddenly died. The first news was given two days ago by his colleague and friend David Wessel.   Alberto Alesina was an enormous presence to be...

Nelle prossime settimane e mesi abbondano gli scenari politici che potrebbero danneggiare i democratici e favorire Trump e i repubblicani. Trump può anche approfittare della mancanza di un contendente solido tra le file dei democratici, usando anche la sua posizione pubblica d'autorità a suo vantaggio. Infatti desidera così tanto un...

In the coming weeks and months, political scenarios abound that may hurt the Democrats and favor Trump and the Republicans. Trump may also profit from a Democratic Death Wish. Above all, the wish is manifest in too many Democratic potential candidates... Trump has also used the “Bully Pulpit” to his advantage. He desires...

Political Science Professor Joseph La Palombara believes President Mattarella did not behave unconstitutionally and did little more than have several of his predecessors at the Quirinale. Therefore, Luigi Di Maio's demand for impeachment of the President was "irresponsible and perhaps a dangerous indicator of how he and the M5S would...

Perché Donald Trump potrebbe durare e rimanere Presidente più a lungo di quanto qualcuno preferisca? In primis, i desideri impossibili dei Democratici - come "Oprah for President 2020" - favoriscono il vantaggio che Trump è sempre così intelligente da sfruttare. Le ragioni potenti e inquietanti per cui Trump è ora...

Why might Donald Trump be around longer than anyone prefers? Because of democrats wishful thinking - like "Oprah for President 2020" - favors the built-in advantages Trump is so clever to exploit. The powerful and disquieting reasons why Trump is now the American president, and why he might well endure,...

Few of us have used prose as originally, as brilliantly or sometimes as sarcastically as Giovanni Sartori. No other contemporary political scientist has seen his most pointed and penetrating verbal thrusts carefully collected and reproduced on the Internet. Sartori was very much like the rest of us, that is only...