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Karen Bass, Nithya Raman, and the Incriment of the Street: Homelessness, Measurement, and the Manufacture of Civic Confidence
In principle, the proposition that Los Angeles voters might “finally change direction” on homelessness rests upon two assumptions that deserve interrogation before the proposition can be weighed: first, that a…
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Knowledge and Power: Tom Cotton; And the Pursuit of Lasting Peace
Since the conclusion of the Cold War—and notably after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001—the United States has increasingly embraced the idea that collecting more information about adversaries necessarily…
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Tom Cotton: The Epistemology of Threat — China, Secrecy, and the Manufacture of Strategic Necessity
Fundamentally, Senator Tom Cotton’s foreign policy posture emerges from a sustained pattern of public statements and legislative priorities that collectively signal a deeply adversarial interpretation of the People’s Republic of…
