The Editorial

The decision was in the air: the construction schedule for the MOSE project, the system of mobile dams that will protect Venice from high water, is being extended. The construction site will not close, as expected after yet another change in the schedule […]

The letter we're publishing is thought-provoking: we must cut waste and privileges in healthcare, but we have a duty to defend a valuable service for citizens, especially the most vulnerable. The author of the letter has cancer.

Summer has arrived, a time for departures, and many families decide to get rid of their grandfather or father-in-law by placing them in the hospital for tests. But unnecessary hospitalization is a widespread practice in Italy and makes

Let's recap. The judiciary has blocked the Ilva steelworks in Taranto, closing six departments of the steelworks and arresting (with house arrest) eight people under investigation for environmental disaster. Taranto workers took to the streets with a strike.

The story I'm sharing today is significant, because it's a clear example of how money is wasted in healthcare. We're in Bari, where the emergency room at the Policlinico Hospital, which is also the largest

With less than a hundred days to go until the vote, the American presidential race has entered its decisive phase with Barack Obama still ahead in the polls (an average of six points) but increasingly followed by

There are always surprising angles to measuring unemployment in Italy. Until yesterday, for example, we knew that Italians rejected manual labor, even high-ranking jobs, because they considered them demeaning, even socially: here

In this article by Sergio Rizzo published in the Corriere della Sera, from which we reproduce extensive excerpts, a crucial point emerges in the fight against the waste of public money. The first black hole in Italy, in

There's a water shortage, rain isn't coming, agriculture is suffering, and in Castellaneta, in the province of Taranto, a public tap continues to waste 10 liters per second. This incredible waste is being denounced by the Italian Farmers' Confederation, but

The Lazio region is a cesspool of waste. The regional council costs 140 million euros a year, while the 71 councilors each have an annual sum of 211 euros.

Have you ever seen an apple? One in six of them is thrown away, and while they're not wasted, their decomposition produces greenhouse gases equivalent to 10 million barrels of oil. Oxfam Italia, a coalition of NGOs that

In times when prices are rising in all sectors, the news, which has gone unnoticed, is very significant: traveling between Rome and Milan has become cheaper than just a few months ago. What

The cost of security guards in Rome is coming in, and it's embarrassing. Officially, 120 security guards circulate in the capital every day, employing over 1.000 men across the three levels of protection. The first

Remember the barricades against the Monti government that simply wanted to increase the number of pharmacies? The government gave in, step by step, and managed, at the end of a long tug of war, to keep the

Giuseppe Remuzzi, in the Corriere della Sera, poses an important question: why are patients woken at dawn in hospitals? A useless torture that, among other things, damages the health of the patients. The nurse who comes to measure the

I've never been fascinated by catastrophic theories about the planet's future, but in this case the data reported by the FAO (in the report "The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture") are incontrovertible. And impressive. Let's recap: 1700

The bicycle is making progress, as demonstrated by the 1,75 million units sold in Italy in 2011. This is a growth of 20 percent per year which indicates an underlying trend: more and more citizens are abandoning the car and

Which expense is most outrageous among the reimbursements for Lazio regional councilors? The ranking is difficult, between a €300 bill at the Equestrian Fair and a €20 bank transfer for a