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From cruise ships to climate floods, Venetians have had enough of outsiders ruining their city. Now here comes Bezos, staging a wedding spectacle that feels like the billionaire version of Marie Antoinette’s let-them-eat-cake moment. iPINIONS exposes why this isn’t just another celebrity event; it’s a case study in billionaire excess meeting public backlash. Read my… Read more.
Given Brexit, it’s arguable that England has not suffered a more symbolic defeat since the Norman Conquest than the one Italy handed it today. Two soccer-mad nations faced each other, and one blinked. Italy bested England in the final of the Euro 2020 soccer tournament Sunday in London. The winner was determined by a penalty… Read more.
WTF are CNN and Stanley Tucci thinking with their tone-deaf promos for Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy. It’s bad enough that Tucci seems an embarrassing substitute for Anthony Bourdain. But the only thing worse than making a mockery of people starving and even dying under Covid-19 restrictions is eating like a celebrated schmuck in the… Read more.
Reports about African migrants dying to breathe free have become normalized. They hardly register in public consciousness, let alone prick our collective conscience. At least 65 migrants have died after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia. … The incident is thought to be one of the deadliest shipwrecks involving migrants… Read more.
There’s no denying that America has an arbitrary, even mercenary, immigration policy (which, for example, grants Cuban migrants an EZ pass but repatriates Haitian migrants summarily). Yet, compared with that of other countries, America has by far the most inviting and humane policy of them all. This fact is finally coming into stark relief for… Read more.
Silvio Berlusconi has been the richest and most charismatic man in Italy for many years. But the origins of his fortune remain such a mystery that many accuse him of “going into politics so as to not go to jail”. And into politics he did go. Moreover, few were surprised when he became the most… Read more.
[Author’s Note: On the odd occasion interest in one of my commentaries is such that my webmaster prevails upon me to run it for two-consecutive days. It will probably come as no surprise to any of you that this is one of those occasions. The commentary below was originally published yesterday, Tuesday, at 5:28 am.] [A]nti-Americanism was… Read more.
Fears are mounting in Italy that immigrants from North Africa are determined to ape the riots their brothers perpetrated throughout France five years ago. Because for the second time in as many months, disillusioned, disaffected, and delinquent youths rampaged through Milan last weekend, destroying shops and burning cars to vent long-simmering grievances over chronic unemployment, racial… Read more.
