Latest from Floriana Bulfon

The Mysterious Sinking of the Bayesian
British tech billionaire Mike Lynch, his daughter and five others drowned in a purportedly unsinkable luxury yacht. In England on the same day, his lifelong friend and business partner was hit and killed by a car on a country road. A conspiracy theorist couldn’t make up the background story.

Why Niger Left the West and Embraced Russia
Last year’s military coup in Niger changed the country’s trajectory and rocked African geopolitics. After 60 years as a strategic Western partner, political and economic alliances were shattered in a week, and now the newly installed junta has found a friend in Russia.

On Tuscany’s Farms, Women Migrant Laborers Face Exploitation
Beautiful Tuscany has a dark side. On farms that produce the region’s famous produce, women who fled war and poverty labor in appalling conditions 12 hours a day, summer and winter. Paid less than male migrant workers, and far less than Italians, they are also sexually exploited by predatory bosses.