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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. appeared first on Anthropology News. He persuaded banks that it would help them identify employees who embezzled.

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Frontiers and Failures: Kyrsten Sinema’s Political Aesthetics

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In April 2023, the New York Times Magazine published a profile of her decision to leave the Democratic Party. Her cowboy outfit at the border fence—a site of cruelty, dispossession, and social and ecological genocide—directly referenced the frontier and its forced ownership by the US government.