America, the weekly newsletter of Il Sole 24 Ore dedicated to the US universe

"We the People of the United States". On 4 July 1776 in Philadelphia, representatives of the thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic coast signed the Declaration of Independence. The first democracy of the modern era was born: the United States of America.

But 'We the People', the formula placed as a preamble to the US Constitution of 1787, beyond the lofty tenor of its principles, never really succeeded in overcoming the many dilemmas on which the new federal state rested: colonial legacies, the dialectic between local governments and the federal political order, and racial tensions.
More than two centuries have passed but the contrasts in America have never really been overcome. The economic and racial divisions, the differences in economic and social development between the two coasts and the inland area of the United States, the economic challenges following the subprime mortgage crisis, the revolution of the digital age, but also the divisions over ethical issues that in Europe seem to have been taken over, and the polarisation of society that has now spread like a virus from Trump's United States around the world in the age of social networks.

The United States is still the leading global political economic and financial power, the leader of Western democracies. But they are today - more than then - a country divided in two, deeply torn, with the institutional rubble left by the Trump presidency and its conclusion with the assault on Capitol Hill.

America's new weekly newsletter from Il Sole 24 Ore will try to disentangle the many news items arriving daily from the economy, politics and finance, trying to put them together to offer you a compass, a reading guide, each week, pointing out the main events published by the online and paper daily newspaper.

In a single container with just a few clicks, America will offer the best of the content published in the last seven days on Il Sole 24 Ore, 24+, M+ and the free site Il Sole 24 Ore.com, articles, commentary, analysis with photos, videos and graphics. It will also offer "Foggy Bottom," a short commentary on a salient fact as seen from Washington D.C., the federal capital and its foggy harbour. "Radar," a selection of things we're reading in American newspapers and websites. And 'Compass', the calendar of the major political and economic-financial events of the week ahead.