Mattia Marzà

The temptation to read the United States as an all-too-familiar context, progressing along the same evolutionary path as ours, is very strong; yet, often things are not only more complex than they appear at first glance, but are even the opposite. It is with this approach that this issue deals with an underground, and at times difficult to understand, phenomenon: Trump’s growing popularity among …

1. Warm-up: the greatest show ever Yuri Orlov, one of the world's leading arms traders, flies to Liberia, inflamed by a horrific civil war, to secure a monopoly on the supply of weapons to the government forces of the bloodthirsty dictator Andre Baptiste. He will spend the night in what is formally a two-star hotel, in reality a hovel in one of the world’s poorest slums, in stark contrast to both …