Digis Mak

Italy is experiencing the most unpleasant and mediocre electoral campaign in recent decades. On Monday night, the parties presented the lists for the elections on September 25, which are a reflection of an old and largely unsuccessful political class, with characters who have not left Parliament for twenty, thirty or more years, without any space for youth or new entrants from civil society. And most of the parties with programs that contain propaganda and many unrealizable promises. It seems that Italy is experiencing a campaign from the 90s or the beginning of this century, with some politicians who seem eternal. This is the case of Silvio Berlusconi, who will be 86 in September and entered Parliament in 1994. Now he will enter the Senate, willing even to preside over it, after be...

On September 5, the British Conservative Party will have a new leader and, therefore, the person chosen by its members will enter number 10 Downing Street to replace Boris Johnson, who celebrated his third and last year in power in July. Although the polls suggest that there will be a prime minister, since Liz Truss is ahead of her opponent, Rishi Sunak, the former finance minister could still surprise and outnumber the current head of foreign affairs. Nothing is written in stone in British politics, but the challenges that the new 'premier' will have to face once he takes office are clear. After what the press baptized as the "summer of discontent", whoever wins the contest will have an autumn full of obstacles ahead, marked by the increase in energy prices and its consequences on t...

In recent days, Joe Biden has celebrated some of the main achievements of his Government. Last week, he signed the Inflation Reduction Act—actually a climate and health spending and tax reform bill—and it announced his plan to cancel student debt. In none of them was the vice president, Kamala Harris, present. She was on vacation in Hawaii, between hiking and visiting flea markets. Harris's absence from two straight moments of brilliance from the Biden Administration symbolizes a vice president who hasn't been able to find her place. It must be recognized that it is always a difficult task: the second cannot go even one centimeter from the line that the president marks and has little room for maneuver. To this is added his own internal problems, with a general disbandment of senio...

Brigham Young University said a fan has been banned for directing racial slurs at a Duke volleyball player during their match on Friday in Provo, Utah. BYU says the fan was not a student although they sat in the student section. The school released a statement Saturday afternoon apologizing to Duke and his student athletes.The accusation first surfaced Saturday through a post on Twitter from Lesa Pamplina Fort Worth, Texas attorney, who says the Duke player — Rachel Richardson, a sophomore outside hitter from Ellicott City, Maryland — is her goddaughter and the only Black starter for the Blue Devils volleyball team. Pamplin said in the post that BYU fans directed slurs at Richardson every time she served. She also said that Richardson was threatened and authorities had to sit at the ...