13 June 2026 – Saturday
13 June 2026 – Saturday

Elections

Minarets in the Skyline: Zohran Mamdani and the Immigrant Dream

Zohran Mamdani’s win isn’t just historic, it’s architectural. A new kind of skyline is rising in New York, and the world is watching.
Zohran Mamdani’s win isn’t just historic, it’s architectural. A new kind of skyline is rising in New York, and the world is watching. The Big Apple, The City that Never Sleeps, The City of Dreams, The Melting Pot. Call…

Uccio, the stellar fighter

On the rainy morning of May 5th, in the extremely professional recording studios of Radio Bocconi, I had the opportunity to have a small conversation with the three candidates running for the CNSU in next week elections. In this…

Alessandro, the tenacious rebuilder

On the rainy morning of May 5th, in the extremely professional recording studios of Radio Bocconi, I had the opportunity to have a small conversation with the three candidates running for the CNSU in next week elections. In this…

Giovanni, the new face in town

On the rainy morning of May 5th, in the extremely professional recording studios of Radio Bocconi, I had the opportunity to have a small conversation with the three candidates running for the CNSU in next week elections. In this…

The Dilemma of the Loyal Voter

The right to vote is one of the most important citizenship rights one can possess. It is the most prominent characteristic of democracy and the essence of citizens being represented. This vital right must be taken advantage of, not…

Whoever Wins Istanbul, Wins Turkey 

In a 2019 live television interview, the then-leader of Turkey’s main opposition party, the CHP (Republican People’s Party), Kemal Kilicdaroglu, was laughed at by the moderator when he claimed that his party would win control of Turkey’s five largest…

Off the Bandwagon 

In our extremely integrated and interconnected world, our beliefs are shaped by the influences around us. Potentially without realizing it, we may be swayed by popular opinions. This is called the “Bandwagon Effect”.  The Bandwagon Effect is: “a type…

What a chair to the head can teach us about politics as a spectacle

After a close and polarised presidential race in 2022, Brazilians returned to the ballots this October to elect mayors and city councillors. In Latin America’s largest city, the local elections’ stakes are everything but local. With a GDP comparable…

It’s giving elections: the entanglement of social media communications and political preferences

2024 is the Election year. During this trip around the sun, about half of the world’s population got to exercise the right to vote, and we once again were presented a memento that in politics how you communicate is…

Questing in the dark

To be the president of France is to be hated. Among the eight men elected to the office since the establishment of the Fifth Republic only Charles de Gaulle, war hero and designer of its constitution, has managed above…