by Rosario Iaconis | Feb 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Italy’s voters, though, keep strengthening her hand. Unlike Claude Rains’s Captain Louis Renault in Casablanca, President Macron does not envision the “beginning of a beautiful friendship” with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Rather, the Gallic leader has tried to...
by John Mancini | Feb 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
It was on February 19, 1942 that the Second World War came for Italian Americans. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 making many in our community “enemy aliens.” The order primarily targeted Japanese Americans who lived on the West...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Feb 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’m two weeks late to it but February 5th was officially World Nutella Day. I know: We need to detoxify the media – and our fellow Americans – from their addictive notion that Italian culture simply means “something edible.” But, just as African...
by John Mancini | Feb 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Recent polls among Republican voters are finding that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is a serious contender against Donald Trump for 2024. DeSantis hasn’t officially entered that race but even the left-leaning media envisions his entry. The Florida governor has...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Feb 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
The recent Grammy Awards inspired this blog, the title of which is a spin on a famous song by the 1960s folk group the Kingston Trio: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Once upon a time, Italian Americans gobbled up Grammys like Pac Man, and in every conceivable...
by John Mancini | Feb 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
One of our duties at the Institute is to monitor the media – how the Italian heritage is perceived and broadcast across the nation. The Learning Channel (TLC) has a popular series called My 600-lb Life, about morbidly obese Americans who decide to avert early death by...
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