Valentina Pasquali

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Valentina Pasquali

Valentina Pasquali is a freelance journalist based in Washington D.C. Her writing and photography have appeared in Foreign Policy Magazine, The Washington Post, Global Post, National Public Radio, D-La Repubblica delle Donne, among others. Over the course of the past several years, she has reported from Haiti, Italy, the US, Turkey, Indonesia, Nepal, France and China, writing for both US- and Itay-based publications. She has been writing about American politics since the 2004 Presidential Elections.

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The race for VP: in search of Romney’s running mate

Valentina Pasquali - U.S. and Us - 7/5/2012
Now that both Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are out of the picture and Mitt Romney is certain to be the Republican nominee for the White House, the Washington chattering class has moved to speculate about the possible identity of the Governor’s future running mate...

The meaning of Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney’s future

Valentina Pasquali - U.S. and Us - 13/4/2012
Rick Santorum’s decision to call off his bid for the White House put an end to the Republican primary season in all but name. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul have pledged to stay in the race until the party convention this summer but they are no longer real threats to Mitt Romney. The former Governor of Massachusetts is now breathing a sigh of relief...

The meaning of Obamacare

Valentina Pasquali - U.S. and Us - 10/4/2012
After hearing oral arguments in an animated three-day session, the US Supreme Court now moves to determine the fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - better known as “Obamacare”. The nine justices have already cast preliminary votes, but their final decision will be announced in June. In the meantime, they will be writing opinions that will make judicial history...

Romney, one step closer

Valentina Pasquali - U.S. and Us - 4/4/2012
Mitt Romney swept the three primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington D.C. in his race for the GOP nomination. It was an outcome that was expected particularly in Maryland and the District of Columbia. However all eyes were on Wisconsin, where Romney was leading in the polls lately but where the race between him and Rick Santorum had been tight for weeks...

The features, and perils, of income inequality in America

Valentina Pasquali - U.S. and Us - 23/3/2012
It is said that Washington D.C. is a political and cultural bubble hardly representative of the American heartland. Some people, in particular on the right, call it “elitist,” alongside other coastal hubs such as New York and San Francisco...

Romney’s big night in Illinois

Valentina Pasquali - U.S. and Us - 21/3/2012
After barely squeaking by in Michigan and Ohio, Mitt Romney offered the first truly convincing performance in a midwestern industrial state on March 20, when he easily won the GOP primary in Illinois...

Message from the South: the Santorum tide

Valentina Pasquali - U.S. and Us - 14/3/2012
As expected, the primaries in Alabama and Mississippi ended in a tight three-way race between Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. What few people predicted, however, is that two states which, in recent days, had increasingly begun to look like possible break-throughs for Romney would turn into bitter defeat instead...

La classe media frustrata e la macchina elettorale

Valentina Pasquali - U.S. and Us - 8/3/2012
Le paure della classe media americana sono state al centro del dibattito elettorale di quest’anno. Eppure, mentre i politici sono impegnati ad assecondarne desideri e bisogni, gli elettori della classe media appaiono sempre meno convinti dell’equità del sistema e sempre più insoddisfatti delle scelte a loro disposizione...

Pig in the middle: important voters, caught between the undeserving poor and the greedy rich

Valentina Pasquali - U.S. and Us - 7/3/2012
Worries over the decline of the middle class have been front and center this election cycle. But while everyone is busy pandering to them, voters in the economic middle are actually less invested than ever in the process and more dissatisfied with the choices they face. They feel besieged, squeezed in between the undeserving poor and the greedy rich...

Republican rollercoaster ride

Valentina Pasquali - U.S. and Us - 29/2/2012
This rollercoaster of a Republican primary season continued on its winding path Tuesday night. Mitt Romney pulled off two victories (in Arizona and Michigan) and managed to end what had been an otherwise tough February for him (he lost primaries in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri to Rick Santorum and had been falling in national polls) on a high note...