According to Moisés Naím's essay "Mafia States" (May/June 2012), the world now faces a grave "new threat": governments that have been taken over by organized crime. These "mafia states" are so ...

Imagine a country where mobsters do not just break the law but quietly become the law, turning a collapsing system into their ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's justice minister on Monday promised a full investigation into allegations that governments in the early 1990s held secret negotiations with the Mafia to try to stop spate of ...

U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of running a "mafia state" and compared him to a slave owner during his speech at a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on ...

A film festival at the Glenwood Arts Theater is putting Kansas City’s Mafia history back in the spotlight over the next two ...

In the aftermath of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, there has been an overdue reckoning with how many historians, foreign policy analysts, politicians, and others underestimated or ignored ...

Notorious accused Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested at a medical clinic in Sicily on Monday, Jan. 16, while he was undergoing treatment under an alias, Italian police said. Denaro, ...