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5 Must-Read Books About Russia and Ukraine: Our Expert Picks
1. Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know (second edition) – Serhy Yekelchyk Serhy Yekelchyk precisely defines both the commonalities and differences in the histories of Ukraine and Russia, and he also delves into the entanglements between Ukrainian and United States politics. Yekelchyk asks all the right questions and answers them succinctly and precisely.This slim volume…
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16 of the All-Time Best Working-Class Sitcoms
The sitcom is among TV’s oldest and most venerable forms — and the ways in which they have attempted to reflect our “working class” economic realities are as interesting as the ways they’ve tried to obscure them.
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How to Stop Your Android and Its Apps From Tracking Your Location
Much to the chagrin of big tech companies, nobody wants their smartphones to spy on them. By default, however, our mobile devices track our every move — and share that data with other apps and services. Luckily, as with most things on Android, you don’t need to live with the default setup presented to you.…
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You Are Definitely Not Using These 5 Words as They Were Intended
Articles of this kind usually assert that a word’s correct meaning lies in its earliest uses, while later developments are corruptions. Disinterested doesn’t mean “not interested” but “impartial” they complain. Decimate must refer to the destruction of precisely one-tenth of something they protest. Fulsome can only mean “insincere” rather than “very full” they cry. While…