Annamo bene…. “Today’s A.I. technology cannot destroy humanity.” nytimes.com/2023/11/18/tec…

As Giorgia Meloni moved from the political margins of her youth to the center of Italian life, the right-wing Hobbit subculture has followed her up to Italy’s temples of high art. From the new Tolkien exhibit, complete with “Tolkienian” Obama misquotes!nytimes.com/2023/11/17/wor…

Silvio Berlusconi spent some of his last years ordering mail-order art off late night television and many of the paintings are now stashed in an enormous hangar that critics have characterized as a sort of Raiders of the Lousy Art warehouse. nytimes.com/2023/10/27/wor…

Giorgia Meloni tells Italy she is dumping her longtime partner after the gaffe-prone news commentator is caught floating threesomes and foursomes in hot mic moments to women who were not the prime minister of Italy. nytimes.com/2023/10/20/wor…

“So many people are showing us support,” said the Ukrainian teenager, who wept as young Catholics hugged her and a priest stopped to wipe away her tears. “The pope — I don’t think so.” nytimes.com/2023/08/05/wor…

Going back on here to say how bummed I am that Sinead O’Connor died. My first concert, at Jones Beach (with my mom!), and man oh man is Mandinka a beautiful song.

It’s a good paper.

Yes. But also… nytimes.com/2023/06/19/wor…

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They had names. They had families.

Timely and heartbreaking reporting by Christina Goldbaum & Zia ur-Rehman about the Pakistani village that saw its sons drown in the Mediterranean off Greece last week.

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I tracked down and talked to the captain of the luxury megayacht that helped save the migrants from the sea off Greece after one of the deadliest shipwrecks in memory. “We took them all,” he said. With ⁦Matina Stevis-Gridneff⁩ nytimes.com/2023/06/21/wor…

Today, as Rome gives its last pitch to host the Expo World’s Fair, it has 2 major obstacles blocking a fantastic, maybe fantastical, future: A spending spree from its Saudi rival and Rome itself. Degradation is not exactly the stuff of campaign brochures nytimes.com/2023/06/19/wor…

“What happened here, darling?” asks Bolza, who wears a brimmed hat adorned with quills, about a toppled plant in the barn studio. “The pot is too small, darling,” says Nencia, who also wears a brimmed hat adorned with quills.
Hanging at Umbria’s stunning Reschio for TOWN&COUNTRY

.Jason Horowitz takes his hooptie to Umbria: 'Probably a cardinal will get murdered.' TOWN&COUNTRY townandcountrymag.com/leisure/travel…

I used to fact check Robert Gottlieb’s dance coverage when I was starting out and he was always super nice and patient on the phone even when I (gulp) suggested changes for readability. Back then I had no clue the giant I was correcting about pirouettes.

Silvio Berlusconi has been dominant for so long in Italy that I wrote his obit for both the The New York Times and the The Washington Post

As Greece votes, the EU has cut Mitsotakis slack for doing its unpleasant work of keeping migrants at bay, as policies once associated with the right have drifted to the mainstream. “I’m helping Europe,” he told me. “It’s bought us reasonable good will.” nytimes.com/2023/05/21/wor…

Around Rome this time of year, warning signs reading “In this place fresh fava are served” are taped to restaurants and markets. Fava Bean season means picnics and pecorino -- but also mortal peril. A dispatch from the green front lines of Favismo
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Well, this is wonderful. (With a Maury cocktail cameo!) nytimes.com/interactive/20…

But I TOLD you what outfit I was going to wear…

Alessia! She sought to defend Di Maio by adding, “ultimately the essence is right because I hope that one day I can be an economist.” Her mother became a companion to the prince, who locals say prefers to be addressed as the Prince. Gift link: nytimes.com/2018/02/23/wor…