Giorgia Meloni Cuts the Hard Right a Path to Power

The New York Times | Aug. 21, 2026, 5:01 a.m. | Original
In a rare interview, the onetime political outcast reflects on her route from “the uncomfortable side of history” to the threshold of leading Italy’s most durable postwar government.
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