I like to jokingly refer to GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani — the man who proudly declared that freedom is about the submission to authority — as Il Duce, the term used for dictator Benito ...

The grandson of Benito Mussolini has lodged a legal request to exhume the body of Italy’s fascist dictator to find out how “Il Duce” really died, his lawyer told Reuters on Monday. Subscribe to read ...

Sergio Luzzatto, author of The Body of Il Duce: Mussolini's Corpse and the Fortunes of Italy, describes how Benito Mussolini's body has been beaten, buried, exhumed, stolen, hidden and turned into a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Editor’s Note: V. LADA-MOCARSKI is a vice-president of J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation, New York. In 1941 he was commissioned in the Army of the United States and saw overseas service for the ...

It was Benito Mussolini’s show and small limelight did he give Adolf Hitler. Up to the very morning of their meeting in Venice last week both were nervous as tomcats. Each seemed to fear some hitch or ...

Dictator Benito Mussolini has long fancied himself a student of government. Convinced that parliamentary democracy is an anachronism, Il Duce has pondered the ideal political setup for the economic ...

Viva Il Duce!' the crowd in Rome's Piazza Campidoglio roared as they jostled to get a better view of prime minister Benito Mussolini, who held much of the Italian nation in his thrall. But not all.

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris. And I'm Robert Siegel. What to do with the dictator who is deposed but not universally disgraced, the defeated despot who retains a ...