The Village Voice looks at "phantom utopias," lies told by today's despots to conjure memories of great autocratic times that never existed.

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Giovanni Pernice left the BBC show after his 2023 celebrity partner Amanda Abbington complained about his conduct - which was ...

The subject of Ron de Beaulieu’s new book is a notorious bootlegger with a talent for misdirection. After one of Isadore Blumenfeld’s arrests, authorities said he used seven aliases. The author’s ...

At 50, the native Sicilian, who specializes in Church law, is involved in all the cases that shake the Vatican. Lately, she ...

Based on Mario Puzo's 1969 best-selling novel, The Godfather is a timeless tale about family, honor, revenge, and redemption that is a beloved favorite among many film fans, but for those who also ...

Meyer Lansky, gray eminence of organized crime, died of lung cancer at 6 a.m. Saturday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach ...

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The mafia kingpin, who has already cost taxpayers tens of thousands of pounds fighting deportation, claims he cannot return to Albania because 'terrifying' gangs will plot revenge against him.

It was during his tenure at Nebrodi that he came to face-to-face with the mafia for the first time. As he soon discovered, 80 percent of the park’s leases were controlled by Sicilian mob families.