Christmas Eve

Christmas may be one date on the calendar, but the way the world celebrates it is anything but uniform. Walk down a snowy street in Vienna, a sunlit plaza in Mexico City, or a lantern-lit alley in Manila, and you’ll find the same holiday spirit dressed in entirely different traditions. That’s the beauty of Christmas around the world — it adapts,…

A special report from the heart of the holiday season It’s 6 p.m. on December 24th and something shifts in the air. The frantic energy of the past weeks suddenly softens. Streets grow quieter,…

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…