Politics, Positano-Style (opens in new tab)

Dusk settles over an Amalfi Coast hillside, with views across the Mediterranean Sea. The Amalfi Coast’s crown jewel draws nearly one million visitors a year—but as a high-stakes municipal election approaches, overtourism and allegations of corruption are exposing the dark side of paradise By Heike Blümner Positano, on Italy’s Amalfi Coast—which John Steinbeck described in a 1953 essay for Harper’s Bazaar as “a dream place that isn’t quite real and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone”...