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Bloomberg for president?

US Government Teachers Blog

That news is interesting for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that, in a conversation Bloomberg had with New York Magazine in 2013, he categorically ruled-out running for president in 2016. The New York Times reported this morning, though, that Bloomberg is exploring plans to run for president as an independent.

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Is There Something Fishy about the Polygraph?

Anthropology News

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. He persuaded banks that it would help them identify employees who embezzled. and more “did you punch your wife in the face on March 6?”

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Frontiers and Failures: Kyrsten Sinema’s Political Aesthetics

Anthropology News

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.