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Bannon vowed to build his populist school in an Italian monastery after a Roman court cleared his associate Ben Harnwell of criminal charges.

Italy’s new right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sought to calm critics in her first public address since taking office, decrying fascism, voicing support for the European Union and NATO, and vowing continued backing of Ukraine in its war with Russia.

The Conservative Political Action Conference featured strongman Viktor Orban this week, but let's not overreact: He's no Mussolini.

A survey of Bannon’s intellectual influences over the years reveals a voracious reader willing to expose himself to a range of international thinkers, but who holds hard-line conservative views.

Save this story for later. At a café in a mountain town east of Rome, Benjamin Harnwell was wondering which of the five thousand applicants to his right-wing “gladiator school” he could introduce to a reporter without embarrassment. He thought of four, and dialled one up. “A journalist is looking to speak to some students,” he said into the phone, “and I don’t want him to wind up talking to some skinhead.” He listened, a religious medal rattling against his chest, his slicked-back hair shining. Harnwell hung up, saying that he’d been kidding about th...