Countless words will be dedicated in the following days to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who died Aug. 30 at the age of 91. But throughout his obituaries, two specific words will likely be ...

For the Soviet Union, Chernobyl was a catalyst that forced the government into an unprecedented show of openness that paved the way for reforms leading to the Soviet collapse. But 20 years after the ...

“Imagine a country that launches Sputnik and it can’t solve the problem of women’s pantyhose. There’s no toothpaste, no soap, not the basic necessities of life. It was humiliating to work in such a ...

The realization that the Soviet Union hadn’t evolved as much as Mikhail Gorbachev suggested quickly dawned on Raycom Sports Chairman Rick Ray during a trip to Moscow in 1988. He was there to meet with ...

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Free Expression: As Donald Trump’s domestic critics get in line, so the world has saluted his restoration, if reluctantly. Photo: Brandon Bell/Pool via Reuters To read the American press in recent ...

We live in a world where most of us take the transistor for granted. Within arm’s length of most people reading this, there are likely over ten billion of them sending electrons in every direction.

On Monday in Glendale, Arizona, college football will crown a champion. That game will happen. Some don’t... "There wasn’t any 'aha' moment," says reporter Mark Dent, "but they thought, 'If Russia ...

Shortly after Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985, he ramped up talk about glasnost—meaning “openness,” particularly openness of information—and ...