The Situation

Understanding Italy through a fresh lens. Without getting bogged down in too much chatter, without wasting too much time and without taking ourselves too seriously. One story, five lines. And quick tidbits for university students. ‘Situa’, Claudio Cerasa’s weekly newsletter: so you don’t lose your bearings in a changing world

Claudio Cerasa

30 JUN 26

Last updated: 04:39 PM | 18 SEP 26

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La Situa is Il Foglio’s weekly newsletter, edited by Claudio Cerasa, created to cover current affairs in a direct, fast-paced, no-frills style with little ceremony. It is published on Saturdays and brings together ideas, news, figures, images, recommendations and small details that shed light on the week just gone. But La Situa also has a second objective: to try to build and discover the ruling class of the future. To this end, it engages university students by posing a weekly question linked to major current affairs topics – politics, the economy, wars, Europe, technology, artificial intelligence – and publishing the best answers in Il Foglio. It is a newsletter, a laboratory and a training ground for ideas: a way to understand ‘what the situation is’, but above all to train a new generation to observe reality, identify important issues, form a point of view, hone critical thinking and seek alternatives to media hype, getting to the heart of the matter and explaining the situation.

Claudio Cerasa

Nasce a Palermo nel 1982, vive a Roma da parecchio tempo, lavora al Foglio dal 2005 e da gennaio 2015 è direttore. Ha scritto qualche libro (“Le catene della destra” e “Le catene della sinistra”, con Rizzoli, “Io non posso tacere”, con Einaudi, “Tra l’asino e il cane. Conversazione sull’Italia”, con Rizzoli, “La Presa di Roma”, con Rizzoli, e "Ho visto l'uomo nero", con Castelvecchi), è su Twitter.

E’ interista, ma soprattutto palermitano. Va pazzo per i Green Day, gli Strokes, i Killers, i tortini al cioccolato e le ostriche ghiacciate. Due figli.