In The News: College of Liberal Arts

Black Mountain Institute recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. The literary institute has been a staple in the Las Vegas community, and a vital resource for writers and creative scholars at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The tradwife aesthetic, as it’s sold to women, is easy enough to understand. In our world of social media addiction and dead-end wage labor, it can be tempting to find comfort in the sourdough fantasy of post-war soda ads: a retreat to a simpler, if not archaic, time in recent history.

All but 11,875 mail-in ballots cast in Nevada’s two most populous counties during the 2024 general election arrived at county offices by the end of Election Day. The future of a 2020 Nevada law that allows counties to accept mail ballots after Election Day, however, is in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, which is deliberating a similar Mississippi law.
In this episode, Erin and Alyssa talk about Trump’s nuclear war threats, Congressman Tony Gonzales sex pesting, again, and ICE’s pattern of lies. Then they dissect Pam Bondi’s ousting, and why Republicans’ gaggle of trad wives can’t escape the patriarchal system they champion.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal is no longer printing the Las Vegas Sun in its pages — at least for now. The longtime rival newspapers published competing op-eds to mark the change, which came after continued legal battles. But why was the Review-Journal printing the Sun in the first place, and should it continue doing so? Host Sonja Cho Swanson is getting the scoop on this modern newspaper war from UNLV history professor Michael Green, and longtime media observer and lawyer Dayvid Figler.

With the United States' ceasefire in Iran lasting less than 24 hours, some anti-war activists in southern Nevada say they are not surprised to hear of the latest developments between the U.S. and Iran. Wednesday afternoon, an anti-war rally gathered just outside of the Nellis Air Force Base consisting of around 20 demonstrators calling for the United States to follow its word on ceasefire negotiations as promised.

A Clark County commissioner announced he will begin the process of removing Cesar Chavez’s name from a park in his district following sexual abuse and rape allegations against the late civil rights leader. Commissioner Tick Segerblom said the East Valley park, named after the labor leader in 2002, should be changed following what he called “horrific revelations.”

A new study shows submissive women aren't cherished but are held in contempt

It was down to the wire, having left just two hours before President Trump’s deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but Tuesday afternoon, the two countries agreed to a two-week ceasefire. However, UNLV history professor Dr. Michael Green says the deal could go either way.

One of the year’s buzziest novels looks at influencers, gender roles, and the real contradictions in women’s lives
Surprise! The men who want women to be submissive and domestic aren’t really motivated by protection or tradition - but by hostile sexism
For research published in Psychology of Women Quarterly, study authors surveyed 595 men about their familiarity with and opinions on trad wife content. According to their findings, men with attitudes of hostile sexism were more likely to support the trad wife ideology.