# **Estonia vs. Italy: The Unlikely Internet Showdown of 2023** If you’ve been online in the past few weeks, you’ve probably stumbled upon the bizarre yet utterly captivating rivalry between Estonia and Italy. At first glance, these two countries couldn’t be more different—one’s a tiny Baltic nation known for its tech-savvy ways, and the other’s…
UCI World Championships 2025: When the Planet Puts Its Best Carbon-Fiber Foot Forward By Our Correspondent, currently somewhere between a hotel mini-bar and existential dread Rimini, Italy—The Adriatic sun glints off 3,000 bicycles worth more than the GDP of several island nations, and for one week in September the UCI Road World Championships will attempt…
Matteo Berrettini and the Glorious Futility of National Hope By Our Correspondent in Rome, where even the espresso is beginning to question its purpose If you squint hard enough from the cheap seats of the Foro Italico, Berrettini’s serve looks like a surface-to-air missile launched on behalf of an entire peninsula that hasn’t felt collectively…
Rome, Eternal City—where the Wi-Fi is patchy but the frescoes have held up for five centuries. From the Colosseum’s selfie-stick perimeter to the Senate’s revolving-door premiership, Italy keeps demonstrating that collapsing empires are a renewable resource. The rest of the world watches with the same expression tourists wear when their €18 gelato melts onto €250…
