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Is There Something Fishy about the Polygraph?

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However, the thefts continued after the woman identified as the culprit left the sorority, and she would later recant her confession, attributing her suspicious physiological reactions during the test to a repressed history of sexual abuse. In later life, Larson would turn against his invention, calling it a “ Frankenstein’s monster.”

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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. Included in the intertextual field I analyze below are Sinema’s border outfit, her resignation letter, her understanding of her Senate seat as “exceptional,” the history of the dispossession of the American West, and Arizona politics.