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“We the People of the United States.” On July 4, 1776, representatives of the 13 British colonies on the Atlantic coast signed the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. The first democracy of the fashionable period is born: the United States of America. But “We the People”, the formulation posed as a preamble to the US Constitution of 1787, past the excessive tenor of the rules, by no means actually managed to beat the numerous dilemmas on which the brand new federal state was primarily based: the colonial legacies, the dialectic between native governments and the federal political order, racial tensions.
More than two centuries have handed however the contrasts in America have by no means actually been overcome. The financial and racial divisions, the variations in financial and social improvement between the 2 coasts and the inner space of ​​the United States, the financial challenges opened after the subprime mortgage disaster, the revolution of the digital age but in addition the divisions on moral points which in Europe appear to have been acquired, and the polarization of society which by now, within the period of social networks, ranging from Trump's United States, has unfold like a virus ranging from the United States all through the world.
The United States remains to be the main world political, financial and monetary energy, main the Western democracies. But at present – greater than then – a rustic divided in two, deeply torn, with the institutional rubble left by the Trump presidency and its conclusion with the assault on Capitol Hill.
America, the brand new weekly e-newsletter of Il Sole 24 Ore will attempt to untangle the numerous information that arrive day-after-day from the United States on economics, politics and finance, making an attempt to place them collectively to give you a compass, a studying information each week, reporting the primary occasions revealed by the net and paper newspaper.
In a single container with only a few clicks America will supply the perfect of the contents revealed within the final seven days on Il Sole 24 Ore, 24+, M+ and the free web site Il Sole 24 Ore.com, articles, feedback, analyzes with images, movies and graphs . It may even supply “Foggy Bottom”, a brief commentary on a salient reality seen from Washington DC, the federal capital and its port of fog. “Radar,” a collection of the issues we’re studying in American newspapers and web sites. And the “Compass”, the calendar of the primary political and economic-financial occasions of the week to return.
The e-newsletter is edited by Riccardo Barlaam, editor-in-chief of International Economy and Politics of Il Sole 24 Ore, who has been a correspondent within the United States, and by Marco Valsania, an Italian journalist who has lived within the States for 30 years.
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