Every year in late December, my childhood home transformed into a vision of American bliss. We’d gather to ornament a tree, drape string lights around the house, and sit down to an elaborate feast.

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Ernest Martinez, of San Antonio, joined the United Farm Workers Union march after a stop in Galt on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. “There’s a move across the country of voter suppression. It’s the same ...

To a generation raised after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Soviet Union may sound like a historical abstraction. But for those who lived under it, the word union ...

In October 1961, the Soviet Union detonated Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever built. With a yield of 50 megatons, it was about 3,800 times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.