Italy’s New Leader Is a Very Weird, Tolkien-Obsessed Right-Wing Extremist

Early polls out of Italy following its Sunday election suggest that Giorgia Meloni, an ultra-conservative leader known for her opposition to gay rights and immigration, will become its first female prime minister—and the most extreme right-winger to run the place since, you guessed it, Benito Mussolini. Meloni’s victory makes her party, Brothers of Italy, the […]