Of Breasts and Men

Juliet Linley, 12.21.2009

Blogger

What lies behind the Mama's Boy phenomenon? How does an adult male become excessively dependent on his mommy?

Italy's Case Against Google Is a Bad Moon Rising

Leslie Harris, 12.17.2009

President and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology

If platforms for expression like YouTube were held responsible for all the content posted by users, then companies would be forced to actively screen all content before it could be posted -- no small feat.

Berlusconi: The Symbolism Behind the Blood

Anushay Hossain, 12.15.2009

Founder and Editor, anushayspoint.com

There is so much symbolism couched in the attack on Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi. The one word, which keeps coming to my head is basta, Italian for "enough."

"Cocaine Mafia"

Current TV’s “Vanguard”, 12.10.2009

I grew up hearing about Colombian drug cartels dumping huge amounts of cocaine into the United States to feed America's insatiable craving for the fin...

Amanda Is America

Michael Wolff, 12.08.2009

Author of Newser.com's Off the Grid column

Not too long ago, Amanda Knox, convicted the other day in Italy of murdering her junior-year-abroad roommate, Meredith Kercher, was "Foxy Knoxy." Now ...

Buying Gifts In A Globalized World: The Value Of Distance

Marta Mondelli, 12.01.2009

It's increasingly difficult to find gifts in a global world where Tiffany's opened stores throughout Italy and, on the other hand, local NYC and online shopping centers worldwide provide you with everything Italian.

Pick-Up Lines In Rome: Sexual Harassment Or Poetry?

Marta Mondelli, 11.20.2009

I've been living in NYC for seven years now and when I go back to Italy, I'm surprised at the way men and women distinctly check each other out.

Albania: Europe's Wild East

John Feffer, 11.17.2009

Co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus

The traffic circles in Tirana, the capital of Albania, are a free-for-all. There are no lanes. There are no signs. There are no rules. On a visit to T...

In Praise Of Slow Food

Carl Honore, 11.06.2009

Author, In Praise of Slowness

The bright news is that people all over the world are taking a slower approach to food -- and eating better as a result.

So You're Thinking of Converting From Anglican to Catholic

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, 10.29.2009

Author

In converting to Catholicism, you are really just switching over your "files" (ideas/customs/most profound expressions of faith) to your "Mac" (Catholic) "hard drive" (brain/immortal soul).

How I Spent My Tuscan Vacation

Ilana Teitelbaum, 10.28.2009

Freelance Writer and Editor living in downtown Jerusalem

As a child growing up in the urban sprawl of Queens, New York, I dreamed of castles; so I wonder, what do children in Tuscany dream about? I'm guessing it isn't Queens, New York.

Mr. and Ms. Gates Go To Washington, Host Roundtable On Global Health Funding

Diane Tucker, 10.28.2009

Writer/producer/director living in Washington DC

The Gateses are visiting our nation's capital to reframe the conversation about global health aid. They said we should spend more time talking about what works and how to measure it.

Turkey Exposed: Cannot Pretend to be Both Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Israeli

Harut Sassounian, 11.03.2009

Publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale

Playing the skillful political games of their Ottoman predecessors, Turkey's current masters present their country under various guises -- as European...

Is Harley-Davidson the Next Casualty?

Steve Parker, 10.20.2009

Journalist/Broadcaster covering the auto industry and auto racing for 35 years.

How can Harley-Davidson stem the bleeding of red ink?

Berlusconi Is Going, Going...Almost Gone

Michael Wolff, 10.08.2009

Author of Newser.com's Off the Grid column

It could be that in the years ahead every Italian alive in the strange years of Silvio Berlusconi, as both his nation's leading media mogul and domina...

Silvio Keeps His Business Cool

Fortune's Stanley Bing, 10.08.2009

Fortune Magazine Columnist

You've got to hand it to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. No matter what happens, he brings a thoroughly business mindset to the job of governing Italy.

Videocracy: An Interview with Erik Gandini

Nina Burleigh, 10.06.2009

Nina Burleigh is a journalist and author currently living in Berlusconi's Italy

Waving banners scrawled with "Berlusconi is bad for Italy's health," more than a hundred thousand people rallied to protest for a free press in Italy over the weekend.

The Future of the Press

Laura Kiss, 10.13.2009

Journalist of La Repubblica Representative of Nobel Peace prize Betty Williams in Italy

He was five years old when he first started to play with the metal letters of a rotary press. His father was a printer in a small town of Calabria, So...

Baby Boomers: 1969 - Europe on 5 Dollars a Day; 2009 - Europe on 500 Dollars a Day

Brent Green, 11.30.2009

Author of Marketing to Leading-Edge Baby Boomers, creative director, speaker, copywriter

Arthur Frommer's best-selling book published in 1957, Europe on 5 Dollars a Day, is quaintly incongruous 52 years later.

It's Congress: Don't Forget to Wash Your Hands After Hearings

Dave Lindorff, 11.30.2009

Veteran investigative journalist

I'm reminded of an incident in a bathroom in Europe by the recent efforts in Congress to produce a health care reform bill

The Quest for Style

Anita Tedaldi, 11.28.2009

Author, Journalist

I've come to realize that style is an essential part of everyone's life, expressed through fashion, living spaces, or simply in the ways in which we handle ourselves in different situations.