An American journalist heads for Italy to see his country changing from afar.

pressondc.com/about/Doug Cumming is a journalism professor emeritus returning to Italy to view the American upheaval from abroad.

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May 12, 2026

Hybrid, Plug-In Politics

Trump’s ideological flexibility and personality-based politics have allowed him to assemble a group that doesn’t agree on anything except loving Trump and hating Democrats, and . . – David A. Graham in The Atlantic I noticed this phenomenon in… Continue reading
April 1, 2025

The Urbino Press Award

Every year, Italy honors a single American journalist as the very best of the best. Pulitzer Prizes may scatter to many journalists, but there is only one Urbino Award each year. To scholars of Italian history, this implies that a… Continue reading

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