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Is There Something Fishy about the Polygraph?

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He also worked for the US government, polygraphing German prisoners of war during World War II, as well as hundreds of employees of the top-secret uranium production facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Credit: Hugh Gusterson The author’s polygraph equipment ready for use. appeared first on Anthropology News.

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Frontiers and Failures: Kyrsten Sinema’s Political Aesthetics

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In this article, I consider seemingly disparate and unlike things together in order to demonstrate Sinema’s recent political exploits as events that, taken together, are meant to signal “maverickness,” a political persona that was previously performed by two other senators from Arizona: Barry Goldwater and John McCain.

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Re-examining Border Security: Asking about the Weather in an Anti-Immigrant Climate

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Realistically, this falls in line with and is expected of the US government and its military. The mass deportations and attack on immigrant rights, like the fires, feel like an intensified weather event, where its intensification can only be explained by the histories that structure them.