Ne’eman is an assistant professor of health policy and management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. When it comes to developmental disability, the Kennedy legacy is as storied as ...

It is widely known that Boris Yeltsin, the Russian president in his final years, struggled with severe alcohol problems. However, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet Party leader, was quite the ...

The events that have been taking place in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 had never before occurred in the same cumulative fashion in the continent’s history. First, led by the ...

When it comes to cars, facts, and the truth, Matt’s equal love for all three meant automotive journalism was the only path forward. Ever since the age of six, when he’d spend his time helping his ...

The Soviet Union’s successful Zond-5 space mission in 1968 prompted NASA to speed up the Apollo program—ultimately driving it to its successful conclusion the following year. In the heated frenzy of ...

The Yak-9K was essential for the Soviet Air Force’s mission to regain air superiority over the German Luftwaffe during key battles, such as Kursk in 1943. Armed with a 45mm NS-45 cannon, a reliable VK ...

The Yak-9’s wooden airframe design represents a true engineering marvel—considering that this plane was being deployed against some of Hitler’s most advanced military technology on the Eastern Front.

The fall of the USSR wasn’t just economic decay—it was pressure from Reagan’s foreign policy, military buildup, and covert strategy. While often overlooked, these moves helped unravel the Soviet ...

On July 30, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the Kamchatka peninsula, in Russia's far east. Within minutes, tsunami warnings were issued in Russia, much of Asia and across the ...

From 1925, when the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was declared a part of the Soviet Union, one photographer was able to capture the “radical social surgery” enacted by the Bolsheviks that forever ...