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Obama Honors Italy on the Anniversary of its Unification

Today it's the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification. President Obama sent a proclamation honoring Italy.

Ground Zero Mosque: Ramadan Mobarak!

"I wrote this a few weeks ago but the intolerance is growing... The most venomous blabber so far has been the Newt's equating of Moslems to NAZIs and 9/11 to the Shoah. Given his...

Obama, Nancy, and the Health Care Reform Bill. The View from the Italian-American Community on Facebook.

In the night of March 21, as soon as the House passed the Health Care Reform Bill, we launched a discussion among our readers on Facebook. "Whatever your opinion on the matter,"...

Lo straniero (Part One)

Journalist and novelist Douglas Grant Mine, a former correspondent for the AP who now lives in Italy with his family, tells the exhilarating, thought-provoking story of an...

G8 Summit. The Obamas Visit Italy (and the Vatican)

In occasion of the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, the First Family enjoyes Italy's beauties and goodies. A chronicle of their visit...with a few curiosities...

Boys Will Be Boys. (I ragazzi saranno ragazzi)

The fact that you can't change human nature is no excuse for ignoring it and since media coverage of politics is hardly natural there's even less reason for avoiding reality. As I...

Berlusconi Meets Obama. And We Fear Another Gaffe...

On Monday, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met with President Obama at the White House. We were all waiting for another embarrassing gaffe to add to the long list of Mr..

Are you (we) stupid or what?

Solving global and national crises requires accurate and timely information. Television news and information programming is little help in that regard.

Fini Donates Pelosi Precious “Michelangelo. La Dotta Mano”

Italian American politician Nancy Pelosi visits Italy after Obama’s election. The President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies Gianfranco Fini donates to her a copy of the rare...

“Oh, mamma mia". Nancy Pelosi's Six-Day Visit to Italy

Nancy Pelosi, the first woman Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives arrived in Italy on Saturday, February 14, for a six-day visit.

Audio version of our interview with Jovanotti: New York, his music..and Obama

Yes We Can. Yes He Can. Jovanotti's Glocal Music

Why Jovanotti? Why introduce Lorenzo Cherubini, a.k.a. Lorenzo Jovanotti, to a younger (and not so young) generation of Italian-Americans (and not only Italian-Americans)? Why...