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Stefano Vaccara

I’m Sicilian, born in Mazara del Vallo and raised in Palermo. I studied history in Siena and went to graduate school at Boston University. While in school, I started to write for Il Giornale di Montanelli. I then got a full-time job for America Oggi and moved to New York City. My dream was to create a totally independent Italian paper in New York to be read all over the world: I finally founded La VOCE di New York. In 2018 I won the "Amerigo Award". I’m a journalist, but I’m also a teacher. I love both. I cover the United Nations, and I correspond from the UN for Radio Radicale in Rome. I teach Media Studies and also a course on the Mafia, not Hollywood style but the real one, at Lehman College, CUNY. I don't believe in "comfortable truth" and so I wrote the book "Carlos Marcello: The Man Behind the JFK Assassination" (Enigma Books 2013 e 2015). I love cooking for my family. My favorite dish: spaghetti con le vongole.

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Italian Americans and the Impact of Their Five Centuries of History in America

"We think Italian Americans have a history that should generate serious interest on the part of anyone who cares about the history of the United States, of Italy, of immigration, of globalization... Contrary to what was previously thought, we know Italian migrants came from a rich tradition of social and political activism... I think it’s a shame that “nativism” has so taken hold of many Italian Americans... It is all too obvious that Italian Americans don’t know – or have forgotten – their own history as the descendants of immigrants..."

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Nadia Urbinati: Populism? It’s not Fascism, and also Democracies Are “Elastic”

Professor Urbinati recently contributed to the political debate with two important volumes: Utopia Europa, published by Castelvecchi, and Me, the People. How Populism Transforms Democracy for Harvard University Press (coming soon). We met her in her office at the prestigious university in New York City to test the “political thermometer” on the health of our democracy and the challenges posed by populism, a few days before the European elections and about a year and a half before the highly awaited US presidential elections: "We have the internet, we have a solid democracy that has guaranteed 70 years of rule. Fascism will not return, it would be absurd, but there is a transformation of representative democracies because representation is no longer handled by the parties, but directly by the leaders ".

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Cardi’s Farewell: “I did my best to have Italy leave a greater mark on the UN”

We met with the Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations, Sebastiano Cardi, at the end of May, just before leaving his office to continue his commitment to Italian Foreign policy in Rome. We asked him to take stock of these past 5 years – years in which Italy confirmed itself as a leading force at the UN and was able – when necessary – to stand up and call the attention of the international community to issues of great concern to the country, such as the Mediterranean

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RFK and the “Mysterious” End of Kennedy’s Populism

Fifty years ago, on an important night for the Democratic primaries, candidate Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the former President, JFK, died in Los Angeles. RFK understood right away that, more than Communism, it was the Mafia and its relationship with the establishment that was the enemy within that had to be examined. And if he and his brother had not been killed, perhaps today we would give new meaning to the word “populism”

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De Gregori Sings Dylan in New York and History Returns to Being About Us

Following his performance in Boston, Francesco De Gregori will perform at The Town Hall in Manhattan on November 7th, to also bring “his” Bob Dylan in Italian: “I hope to have preserved his sound, which was the first problem that I took on, even before the lyrics”. Which song would you like to dedicate to the Italians in America? “It would be inevitable to tell you, ‘Viva l’Italia’, but I’ll also sing…”

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Celebrating Columbus Day? I Prefer “Long Live Verdi” on 5th Avenue

As an Italian born in Italy, I haven’t been able to become as passionate about Columbus as an Italian born and raised in America. My remarks on this debate on taking down or keeping up the statue are affected by the fact that I belong to that immigration wave of the “last Italians to arrive.” The Italian passion for Don Christopher is something I don’t share, but if I were to listen to a few notes of Don Peppino…

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