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- Preparing for Generative AI in the 2024 Election: Recommendations and Best Practices Based on Academic Research (with Brandice Canes-Wrone, Andrew B. Hall, Kristian Lum, Gregory J. Martin, and Yamil Ricardo Velez). Related 538 Politics Podcast.
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- American Geopolitical Strategy and the Israel-Hamas War, Irregular Warfare Initiative, November 7, 2023.
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- Why it matters when Governor J.B. Pritzker wears a mask (with Mehdi Shadmehr), Chicago Tribune, May 1, 2020.
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- The Perils of Quantification, The Boston Review, March 11, 2019.
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- The Perils of Quantification: The 2013 Aims of Public Policy Address
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