Santa Claus

If you flip through the pages of holiday history, you won’t find a character who’s traveled quite as far—geographically, culturally, and mythologically—as Saint Nicholas. From a soft-spoken bishop in ancient Asia Minor to the red-suited global superstar known simply as Santa, his transformation is one of the most fascinating journeys in festive…

The Man, the Myth, the Red Suit: Who Is Santa Claus, Really? A special holiday investigation Every December, one man manages to visit roughly 92 million homes in a single night, drink an estimated…

The calendar marks it as December 25th, but those digits on a page barely scratch the surface of what Christmas truly means. It’s more than a federal holiday, more than a frenzied shopping season, and…