In The News: College of Liberal Arts

KNPR News

The athleticism on display in tennis, football, baseball is captivating. Just look at the way Las Vegas has taken to professional football, hockey, women’s basketball and more on the way.

Epoch Times

Taiwan will hold elections in January next year, and the election campaign is unprecedentedly fierce. Michael McCaul, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, issued a warning on this a few days ago, saying that the CCP may influence the election and control Taiwan without firing a single shot, which is more influential than the threat of force.

Christian Science Monitor

Mark Bauerlein has become disillusioned with the political and academic ideal sometimes called “the free marketplace of ideas,” especially in America’s institutions of higher education.

CNN

Defying Beijing’s repeated threats, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy presented a carefully choreographed united front in California on Wednesday against an increasingly powerful and aggressive China.

Las Vegas Sun

Donald Trump’s ability to dodge scandals and maintain favorability among his base is a testament to the support he’s been able to coagulate since coming onto the national political scene in 2015, when he announced his first bid for the White House, said Sondra Cosgrove, a history professor at the College of Southern Nevada.

Las Vegas Sun

J ean Munson has had to make a lot of hard decisions in her life, like moving to Las Vegas from Guam in her late teens for college and becoming the first Asian-American woman to open a comic-book publishing company in Nevada.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Prosecutors are asking for the death penalty for a man accused of stabbing and killing another on an RTC bus in February.

New Books Network

Big History seeks to retell the human story in light of scientific advances by such methods as radiocarbon dating and genetic analysis. Brian Villmoare's book The Evolution of Everything: The Patterns and Causes of Big History provides a deep, causal view of the forces that have shaped the universe, the earth, and humanity.

KNPR News

Could magic mushrooms and ecstasy be coming to a psychiatrist’s office near you? They will if state lawmakers approve a bill to allow researchers to use psilocybin and MDMA to aid in therapy.

KNPR News

Could magic mushrooms and ecstasy be coming to a psychiatrist’s office near you? They will if state lawmakers approve a bill to allow researchers to use psilocybin and MDMA to aid in therapy.

The New American

Taiwan’s military is ramping up preparations for a possible future war with China by planning an unprecedented military drill that will take place at a civilian airport in July this year, the island’s official Central News Agency (CNA) declared in a statement.

Radio Free Asia

It’s probably no coincidence that former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou landed in Shanghai just a day before his successor, Tsai Ing-wen, took off for a two-night visit to New York on Tuesday.