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Italy bids farewell to Silvio Berlusconi, but remains in his shadow

Italy held a national day of mourning for Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul who was Italy’s longest-serving prime minister since Mussolini, after his death this week. Thousands turned out for his state funeral – but the country is far from united on the man who remade Italian politics in…

Radio France Internationale

Dictatorship? How Hitler, Stalin and Trump show it’s easier than you think

Andrea Chalupa discusses her graphic novel, co-authored with Sarah Kendzior, about authoritarianism and its dangers

The Guardian - US

Which three current national capitals have hosted the Winter Olympics? The Saturday quiz

From Mussolini to Mecca, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The Guardian - UK

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75 years, 10 mayors: How Sun-Times coverage of City Hall evolved

The newspaper has praised and scourged the city’s chief executives for three-quarters of a century.

Chicago Sun-Times

Italy begins to reckon with Fascist-era colonial collections

Italy is starting to come to terms with its Fascist-era colonial past and the loot it has in its museums

The Independent UK

Willie Landels obituary

Advertising art director who went on to become editor of Harpers & Queen, from its launch in 1970 to 1985

The Guardian - UK

Trumpageddon is upon us

Trump has been channeling Hitler and Mussolini with threats of "retribution" and revenge for his followers

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Steven Spielberg says antisemitism today is ‘standing proud with hands on hips like Hitler’

The director, whose Oscar-nominated film The Fabelmans depicts the racial abuse he faced in the 60s, said he was very surprised by its current resurgence

The Guardian - UK

Giorgia Meloni – Europe’s unlikely new political superstar

If not for the stench of coming out of a post-fascist movement, the new Italian prime minister would now probably be fêted internationally as a new-style, young, female leader, argues Oliver Hartwich

Newsroom.co.nz

Florida is now a laboratory for fascism

There is a very specific reason why Gov. Ron DeSantis targeted African-American history for erasure

Salon

Dante was the founder of Italy’s right wing, claims culture minister – an expert explains why he’s wrong

“Dante was the founder of right-wing thinking in our country,” proclaimed Italy’s culture minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano, at an electoral meeting of the prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s party, Fratelli d’Italia, in January.

The Conversation

Guillermo del Toro and the 'joyous melancholy' of the 'Pinocchio' song 'Ciao Papa'

In the animated "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio," the titular wooden boy decides he must leave home — and his beloved father, Geppetto — with a ragged traveling circus in the hopes of earning needed funds for the family. He's shown onstage (voiced and sung by young Gregory Mann) performing a…

Los Angeles Times

How Guillermo del Toro’s 'Pinocchio' became the darkest musical of the year

Co-screenwriter Patrick McHale talks about writing songs with del Toro, why they chose to include Benito Mussolini, and more.

Inverse

Iran leader's niece slams her uncle's 'child-killing regime' amid mass protests

Farideh Moradkhani said people in Iran are fighting the regime’s "Satanic forces of evil" with remarkable courage and called on the world to support Iran’s "lions and lionesses"

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The Guardian - UK

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio review – a superbly strange stop-motion animation

The director of the Oscar-winning The Shape of Water has turned the timeless fable into a magical Mussolini-era parable

The Guardian - UK

Pinocchio review – Guillermo del Toro’s dark, sombre riff on the Disney-sweet fairytale

The wooden puppet-boy turns fascist in a Mussolini-era, fantasy-horror rework of the classic tale

The Guardian - UK

Is the perfect World Cup achievable or an impossible dream for football?

Past tournaments have had great settings and matches for the ages … but terrible formats. Will the stars ever align?

The Guardian - UK

Discipline the poor, protect the rich – it’s the same old Tories, same old class war

Brexit didn’t change the party: austerity was as heartless under Cameron and Osborne as it is under Sunak, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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The Independent UK

Italy's right-wing government slammed for anti-rave decree

Italy’s new interior minister has defended the government from criticism that a decree banning rave parties could be used to clamp down on sit-ins and other forms of protest

Los Angeles Times

Mark Z. Barabak: Is Arizona paving 'the road to authoritarianism' with its slate of GOP election deniers?

On a recent weekday morning, Steve Arechiga swung by the library to pick up a book he'd reserved. It was a history of authoritarian strongmen, starting with Mussolini. The topic seemed unnervingly immediate.

Salon

GOP: No longer a legit political party

Republicans' only unifying agenda is hate, fear and groveling to billionaires. They want to rule, but not govern

Dublin Live

Dublin woman who shot Mussolini 'brought home' to Merrion Square

Violet Gibson, who had a privileged upbringing as daughter of a Lord Chancellor of Ireland, shot 'Il Duce' as he walked among a crowd in Rome in 1926

Financial Times

The cracks in the Cult of the Dead Leader

What worshipping Margaret Thatcher can’t do for UK Conservatives

Evening Standard

“Not surprise, but disgust” - Italians react to the triumph of Giorgia Meloni

Ben Munster reports from Rome on the reaction on the streets and in the press to Meloni victory - and why her “post-fascism” has stolen into a deeply flawed electoral system.

The Guardian - UK

Personality and Power by Ian Kershaw review – follow the leader… for good or ill

The great historian’s analyses of a dozen 20th-century democrats and dictators are individually cogent but his conclusions tend to the obvious

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