The banality of Vladimir Putin
A new biography of the Russian president details the extraordinary rise of an unremarkable man who learned how to exercise…
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A new biography of the Russian president details the extraordinary rise of an unremarkable man who learned how to exercise…
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ByThe culture war against teachers and academics is manufactured by right-wing newspapers and rent-a-quote reactionaries.
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