Growing up as the son of an Italian immigrant in the 1990s, the word “mafia” has been in my lexicon for as long as I remember. It was unavoidable in that era. Media at the time was filled with images ...

Italian police arrested almost 150 people Tuesday in a major operation against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, areas of which remain in the grip of powerful Cosa Nostra clans. Warrants were issued ...

You know the names of history’s past: Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Lorenzo de Medici, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo. You may not know names from more recent times: Mother Cabrini, Enrico ...