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Across the world, girls and women still lack the choice of “who and when to marry,” according to Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director. As stated in the Report, “Two-thirds of countries around the world allow girls to...

We Southern migrants to Italy’s industrial north all share the same ritual. We take any opportunity we can to break away from grey polluted skies, the heaviness of the air and the stark furrowed fields populated by crows. Year in...

We decided to ask just this question to different Italians in their twenties, who moved to New York for their studies or work. And who have left behind, along with their friends, family, and mamma’s lasagna, a culture more tied...

Only the remaining descendants of Native Americans could proudly say that their history begins on these lands. The “American aristocrats,” who trace their origins back to the pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower, make up an even smaller group of people....

My father lived to be nearly 101 years old. Though he was never able to visit our house in Italy, when I think back on his life, I see many similarities between my father's values and character, and the way of...

As the class of 2020 begins college and a young writer prepares to enter university, she reflects on the unique aspects of the American ritual of leaving home for school, and how it affects both parents and children alike as...

Mia Madre is the touching story of a middle-aged woman juggling with her job as a film director while raising a teenage daughter and caring for her sick mother. Starring Margherita Buy, John Turturro and Moretti himself, the film beautifully...

Critics of the ruling of the Supreme Court which guaranteed the rights of same-sex marriage remind me of those who oppose the introduction of modern methods in winemaking: in both cases there is a fear that long-lived traditions will be...