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No room to wait

How the disappearance of waiting rooms in Italy’s train stations is the latest symptom of the country’s neoliberal turn
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Palermo: An undercover polentona

A conversation overheard on Italy's 'Meridian Question' sparks a deeper internal debate on identity and what it means to be Italian
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Out of sight, out of mind?

The chilling reality of life inside an Italian migrant return hub in Albania
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The last glass eels

A slippery tale of human greed, climate change and the mysteries of the deep
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Black gold across the Mediterranean

An Italian report into the murky underworld of Libyan oil
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Why the Italian right has taken the “Family in the Woods” to heart

How a custody case in rural Abruzzo became a vehicle for nostalgia, anti-modernism, and a political war on the judiciary
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Venice is a video game

How the smart-city dream collides with the lagoon’s unruly, ungovernable heart
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How the right’s obsession with the maranza was born

How a once-playful slang term became Italy’s newest racialised public enemy
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The invisible borderland

Fifty years after a treaty to draw the border between Italy and Yugoslavia, a local newspaper investigates
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Parsing justice: Linguistic violence in the courtroom

In the courtroom, language is never neutral. It can elucidate the truth or shroud it in shadow, protect the innocent or silence the vulnerable. From the arcane tangle of legal
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“All that glitters is not gold”

A new wave of luxury resorts is soaking up limited water resources in the already drought-prone Italian South
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And so it flows

Sophia Smith Galer looks at an article, and a doctoral thesis, about the Venetian-origin dialect once prevalent in the city of Fiume/Rijeka, now ever more endangered Cities where many languages

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