In The News: College of Liberal Arts

New York Times

Adam Laxalt, the Republican candidate for governor of Nevada, knows how to rile up a crowd this election season: Just point to the state to the west.

Elko Daily

With two weeks left before the midterm elections, more Latinos in Nevada and around the nation are eligible to vote than ever before, but speculation varies as to whether they will actually show up at the polls — a scenario that has also kept the political parties guessing in past midterms.

Public News Service

More than 80 percent of land in Nevada is federally owned, the greatest portion of any state. So, Nevada candidates in the midterm elections are addressing public-lands issues, from nuclear waste sites to water and grazing rights.

AVN

Like most people, I am interested in porn. My interests are niche. In short, I’m interested in the geographies of porn.

Nevada Independent

Dennis Hof was a showman who capitalized on the caricature bestowed by his business – the world’s greatest pimp. He would love the attention his death is getting.

Reno Gazette-Journal

In 1978, Hustler Magazine published a horrifying image of a woman being put through a meat grinder (link not safe for work). That image was similar to an ad which recently ran in outlets across Nevada.

Las Vegas Review Journal

In 1978 Hustler magazine published a horrifying image of a woman being put through a meat grinder. That image was similar to an ad which recently ran in outlets across Nevada. Hustler’s intention was to taunt one side of the contentious debate within feminism in the 1970s. Anti-prostitution and anti-pornography activists argued that commercial sex was no more than violence against women.

KSNV-TV: News 3

The lines and the crowd signal a major turnout for early voting, and the Nov. 6 Election Day isn't for another two and a half weeks.

National Geographic

Freed from the binary of boy and girl, gender identity is a shifting landscape. Can science help us navigate?

KNPR News

When you talk about Las Vegas, certain people or places or institutions are icons. One of those icons turns fifty in October. Let’s look back at the history of the Circus Circus, opened in 1968.

Wall Street Journal

What We're Watching

Trump's Schedule: President Trump is in Arizona today and holds another rally tonight. Expect him to discuss immigration and Justice Kavanaugh as he seeks to energize his base to vote.

QNotes

On Oct. 14, the CW network debuted its transgender “Supergirl” character Dreamer/Nia Nal and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas gender and sexuality studies professor Dr. Erika Gisela Abad has given her insights into the character and its portrayal by transgender actress Nicole Maines.