Italy’s Terrible Alternatives
Northern League, Five Star Movement... Berlusconi? Why the Right is set to dominate the Italian election.
Articles by: David Broder
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David Broder is a historian of French and Italian communism. He is currently writing a book on the crisis of Italian democracy in the post-Cold War period.
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