In The News: Department of Sociology
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For the first 15 years of her life, Daniella Mestyanek Young’s entire world was The Family.
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Southern Nevada’s economy has been on a major rebound, with stimulus money and pent-up demand for leisure and travel helping fuel a record period of revenue and gaming win along the Strip corridor.
Digital fan clubs are turning into single-purpose social networks
College leaders should be ready for protests, provocations, and lone attacks, experts say.
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Less than five years after bringing the NFL’s Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas, Southern Nevada is dancing with Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletics, the Northern California city’s last professional sports franchise, which is seeking to flee the crumbling Oakland Coliseum for possibly a new multi-billion stadium in the desert.
Ammon Bundy became infamous in 2014 when he was involved in an armed standoff with federal officials in Nevada, where his father, rancher Cliven Bundy, refused to pay grazing fees.
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Ammon Bundy has carried a small copy of the U.S. Constitution in his front pocket for the past seven years. He does so to remind himself of what the government is supposed to do to serve the people without abusing its authority, he said.
Oregon's House Judiciary Committee held an informational hearing Thursday on a bill that would decriminalize prostitution in the state.
Local activists are pushing state lawmakers to decriminalize sex work across Oregon. As much as 68% of the public supports the idea, according to a ballot measure consultant.
As much as 68% of the public supports the idea, according to a ballot measure consultant.
Demi Lovato’s announcement Wednesday about being nonbinary means, among other things, that people will continue to hear the word more often.
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His book, “American Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement’s Hidden Spaces of Hate,” cowritten with Robert Futrell, includes interviews with white supremacists and details how hate groups cultivate new members.