When thousands of Italian immigrants arrived in America in the early 1900s, they brought more than culture - they brought the ...

Italian lawmakers are seeking to expand a program that helps mothers and children break away from organized crime families ...

Director Francesco Munzi (The Rest of the Night) gives the film’s no-frills dialogue extra weight by emphasizing quiet scenes of characters thinking, pacing, or just brooding. By making every pause ...

Don’t count out the Mafia. Tom Robbins gives a sobering appraisal of why the Italian-American gangsters are more than just pop-culture figures. But they’re also pretty potent pop-culture pricks. Gangs ...

The New global mafia poses the most serious criminal threat in history. A team of NEWSWEEK correspondents spent a month on the trail. The report: ON THE VIA NOTARBARTOLO in Palermo, Sicily, stands a ...

“It don’t make any difference to me what a man does for a living, you understand. But your business is a little dangerous,” growls Don Vito Corleone in “The Godfather.” This line, delivered with ...

There are no colorful characters in "Gomorrah," Matteo Garrone's corrosive and ferociously unsentimental fictional look at Italian organized crime; no white-haired mamas lovingly stirring the ...

LOS ANGELES -- John Mancini has a beef with some cartoon fish. Mancini is the founder of the Italic Institute of America, which decries what it calls Hollywood's stereotyping of Italians as dumb thugs ...

A landmark trial in Italy of Chinese crime gangs has suffered so many mishaps - from the disappearance of documents to the ...