Our features

The features are the work no other newspaper can do: comparing how six or ten papers in five countries tell the same story, reading a primary document in full instead of the news about it, finding the story no Italian outlet covered, measuring what has genuinely improved in the world. Each one comes out on its own day, with the morning edition.

• Backlight How one story of the week was told: the headlines, the words chosen, the gap between headline and text. A mechanism observed, nobody put on trial — and our own errors come first. A president's estimate, a count on the ground: two ways of saying "still unaccounted for" Wednesday, 4 November 2026
• At the Source A primary document explained — a study, a decree, a dataset — instead of the news about the document, noting what the coverage simplified or distorted. Binance's statement on the $6.3 billion theft, read in full Tuesday, 3 November 2026
• Around the World One international story told through how newspapers in at least five languages cover it: what each country stresses, omits, and the words it chooses. US Midterms: one vote, six ways of telling it Thursday, 5 November 2026
• The Long Run A social phenomenon read over the long run — work, school, demography, migration, income — from the primary source of the data, with its series and its limits. The 2026 Bes Report captures an Italy that is improving but remains divided Friday, 6 November 2026
• Order of Magnitude A figure about the planet or the method, read from the primary source: the unit, the comparison interval, the stated uncertainty. Six interventions on climate and health could prevent 1.6 million deaths a year Friday, 6 November 2026
• Good News Documented progress: what has measurably improved in the world, with the data to show it. Loss of primary tropical forests falls 36% in 2025 Saturday, 7 November 2026
• The Blind Spot The relevant story of the week that no Italian outlet covered: the crisis maturing off the radar, the foreign law with consequences at home. The Blind Spot: in Congo the opposition rejects the constitutional referendum, and does so from Rome Sunday, 1 November 2026

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