In The News: College of Liberal Arts

Washington Post

It’s not your imagination: Business, especially big business, is more liberal than it used to be, and Democrats are now more comfortable than Republicans with corporate engagement in politics. That’s the takeaway from an academic survey of business leaders and the public described in a pair of papers published last month.

Snopes

Since the 2010s, a picture has permeated corners of the internet purportedly showing two women adorned with large "blizzard cones" to protect their faces from a snowstorm.

Las Vegas Review Journal

A state lawmaker failed to disclose in his financial disclosures that he led an organization that he ultimately voted to give $100,000 to, raising questions about transparency around the disclosure process for legislators.

Las Vegas Review Journal

The super political action committee backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign has stopped knocking on Nevada voters’ doors, which could signal the campaign is losing ground in the Silver State to Donald Trump in the runup to the primary election.

Tallahassee Magazine

In Jarret Keene’s thriller, humanity outlasts power-trippers

MarketWatch

Pushback on DEI initiatives and reversal of affirmative action could ‘set back African-American economic-mobility prospects by decades,’ one expert says

City Cast Las Vegas

Scholar Lynn Comella, who chairs UNLV’s department of interdisciplinary, gender, and ethnic studies, and who wrote the book “Vibrator Nation,” recently joined co-host Vogue Robinson on our podcast to discuss the state of sex shops in Sin City.

The Bitchuation Room

From El Salvador to the United States, in order to fight fascism we need to remember our radical history and use it to seed real revolution. We also need to "touching the tiger in the balls" Roberto Lovato, Salvadoran journalist and author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas, joins to talk about the importance of remembering and healing from historic trauma, current Central American politics, and U.S. foreign policy. 

KSNV-TV: News 3

Local voices are speaking out after former President Donald Trump turned himself into Fulton County Jail on Thursday.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Nevada is once again back in the senate race hot seat after a razor-thin race just last year between sitting Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt.

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Many of us talk to ourselves in our heads pretty much all day long. But it turns out that there are plenty of people who don’t. In fact, thinking comes in many shapes and sizes, and no two minds are exactly alike. In this episode, we explore the peculiar world of how we think, and consider the pros and cons of inner speech.

KSNV-TV: News 3

The first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign is underway, and the party frontrunner won't be there. Eight candidates met the Republican National Committee's criteria for the debate on Wednesday.