In The News: College of Liberal Arts

Las Vegas Review Journal

The best and worst of Las Vegas history will be on display for the world to see starting this weekend with the debut of two documentary series.

Blavity

These colors were not chosen by random or just for their look. They have important significance and each symbolizes pride in the culture and experience of Black people.

Afro

At the age of 12, Wally Amos moved to Harlem, N.Y. to live with his Aunt Della, who never failed to fill their home with the sweet aroma of her special chocolate chip cookie recipe –– a recipe that would eventually drive Amos to make his own cookies, along with the country’s first ever cookie-only retail store in Hollywood, Calif. in 1975.

Guardian

As demand for responsive sexbots grows, some developers are trying to thread the needle between fully neutered and fully uncensored AI

Travel Weekly

Those looking to take in a little Las Vegas history have about a month before the legendary Tropicana closes and is demolished for a proposed baseball stadium to house the Athletics, the Major League Baseball team that has called Oakland home since 1968.

Nevada Independent

Every other year, Preserve Nevada lists 11 of the state’s most threatened sites. Sometimes the sites are saved. Other times, they disappear.

Mother Jones

Making dementia a political weapon has far-reaching, stigmatizing effects.

Epoch Times

According to a survey by a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), the use of TikTok by supporters of the Kuomintang or Democratic Progressive Party does not have a significant impact on political attitudes, but supporters of the centrist People's Party change from supporting Taiwanese independence to opposing Taiwanese independence. It was found that there was a tendency to change from a pro-American orientation to a pro-China orientation.

Fox News

Self-gifting is on the rise as consumers enjoy the empowerment of treating themselves. ’I’ve been doing more solo dating.’

Mint

Self-gifting soars, with half of U.S. adults single — and many others refusing to settle for dud presents.

Wall Street Journal

More Americans are unattached these days and that is turning out to be a good thing for retailers

City Cast Las Vegas

Thirty years ago this winter, during the middle of the last media dinosaur age — that is, when a print magazine could be a cultural event — Time magazine put Las Vegas on its cover.