Italy beyond Italy
Armenians know they are a diaspora, and so do the Irish. Italians don't, yet beyond the borders lives another Italy as large as the one inside.
On Sunday 2,360 Italians finished the marathon and Yeman Crippa came second. Today America votes, and on 4 December it is the Comites' turn, where only one list made it onto the ballot.
New York's mayor skips the Columbus Day parade and cites Vito Marcantonio, the East Harlem congressman who died seventy years ago. Two ways of being Italian in America, on the day America votes.
The modern city was born as the factory's dormitory. Now that factories work in the dark, it has to learn to create wealth on its own.
In 2020 the people toppling Columbus statues thought they were striking at a conqueror. Without knowing it, they were also striking at the grandparents of millions of Italian Americans.
Leonardo becomes French, Columbus Spanish, Marco Polo Croatian. And meanwhile we forget even the ones nobody could dispute.
Every country needs a story to present itself to the world. Ours cannot be empire: it is the story of those who side with the weak.
The Eduardo Bolsonaro case and the paradox of Italian citizenship: insurance for the few, a door closing for millions of descendants.
From the 2025 reform to the EU Court of Justice: what has changed for descendants of Italians in Argentina, Brazil, the United States and beyond.
Bianca Zero left Genoa for Buenos Aires, like thousands of Ligurians a century ago. Except she went to act, and she doesn't like mate.