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Lifestyles - 21 Ottobre

Are You Suffering From ‘Selfie-tis’? What the Selfie Craze May Say About You

Posting selfies and pictures gives the illusion that life is fuller than it is. Plucking the high points and foregrounding them suggests an accumulation of ‘content’. An implicit statement that, “my life is fuller than yours, look at all the things I do, all the friends I have.” But the truth may be just the opposite…

News - 29 Settembre

Climate Strikers in Utah Tell Us What They Think About Greta and Trump

We care more about climate change because this is our future and what we are being left with. This is what we’re going to have to live with, and so this is something that we can put our energy behind, to fight for our future movement. People in power have been ignoring the science for decades in the interest of creating profit. They have the power to make changes. They are the ones that are supposed to be leading us and informing us, but they are not doing that.

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Food & Wine - 5 Settembre

Like the Mom-and-pop Corner Store, the Brick-and-mortar Restaurant is Dying.

With cooking at home going the way of the dinosaur, we reach out for alternatives. Thanks to technology, meal delivery from restaurants is now widespread, but where is this food coming from, why do we need it and what is it doing to the dining industry?

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English - 31 Luglio

Humanity at the Crossroad of Morality: Anti-diversity and the Spread of Populism

Up to recently, it was possible to imagine a world without national borders. Now the toxic rhetoric of wannabe dictators, white supremacists and hate-mongers in power may tip us over the edge into the kind of dystopia that features the breakdown of democracy, civil war, concentration camps and genocide.

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Arts - 18 Luglio

Camilleri, Creator of Inspector Montalbano, Gave Sicily to the World

Like Elena Ferrante, Camilleri is a ‘glocal’ author who manages to turn the local into the global, telling stories that are rooted deeply in Sicily while simultaneously representing the universal human conflicts that every reader can identify with.

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News - 1 Luglio

The Moral Dilemma of Italians, and Carola Rackete as the ‘One Just Woman’

But what about the Italian people in this dilemma? Despite stereotypes as a self-interested and family-centric nation that sacrifices the public good for the sake of nepotism and the immediate family, Italy, like any other country, is made up of people of all kinds: good and bad, compassionate or selfish menefreghisti

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Arts - 16 Giugno

Franco Zeffirelli, regista di fama mondiale e grande sensibilità estetica italiana

È giusto dire che mentre il suo lavoro nel design dell'opera e nella sceneggiatura ha sempre ricevuto elogi, la sua carriera cinematografica ha avuto alti e bassi: egli ha raggiunto uno stile distintivo che rende i suoi film facilmente riconoscibili come "opera di Zeffirelli", ma ...

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Arts - 15 Giugno

Franco Zeffirelli, Director of World Fame and Italian Aesthetic Sensibility, Dies at 96

It is fair to say that while his work in opera design and staging have consistently received praise, his film career has been more checkered. He has achieved a signature style that makes his films easily recognizable as a “Zeffirelli work,” but…

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Arts - 3 Giugno

Hallelujah, Lina Wertmüller Gets a Well-Deserved Oscar

Complex and fearless, Lina Wertmüller aimed to create controversy in her films. Loved and hated, declared to be among the most brilliant film directors, she was nominated for an Oscar for Seven Beauties but never won it. After more than six decades of her career, the famed director remains politically incorrect and committed to being herself.

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News - 25 Maggio

Sex Education, Abortion and Too Much Government

Both Conservatives and Liberals are unhappy about these two issues. Does the government have the right to take away our decision-making process and legislate these choices for us? What is the nature of government and what exactly is its relationship to its citizens?

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