In The News: College of Liberal Arts

Thrillist

There is an oasis of beer in the desert of America’s expansive west, and yet most have remained blissfully ignorant of its bountiful brews.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Democratic Assemblyman Mike Sprinkle is resigning following sexual harassment claims against him.

CTV News

Researchers out of the U.K. indicate that teachers and parents are among the many factors behind “math anxiety” in students.

Health News Digest

"Losers," a new eight-part Netflix original docuseries, gives viewers access to athletes behind some of the world's most well-publicized sports defeats and the surprisingly sweet life lessons they found in failure.

KNPR News

As you know, for many years, this feature was written by Frank Wright, who was a curator for the Nevada State Museum. If there was an equivalent of Frank in northern Nevada, as the go-to guy for history, it was Phil Earl. We’re sad to report that Phil died early this year just before his eighty-second birthday, and we would like to tell you more about him.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

A Las Vegas mother of four received backlash online after sharing her postpartum story and has decided to stay offline.

San Francisco Chronicle

Winning the California primary is crucial to Sen. Kamala Harris’ plan to secure the Democratic nomination for president. Winning the Nevada caucuses that will be held a few days earlier in 2020 would give her the momentum to make that task a lot easier.

KNPR News

Only five years after Nevada became a state in 1864, White Pine and Elko Counties were born. This year they turn 150.

History

Record numbers of 19-century immigrants arrived in American port cities from the UK and Western Europe following the War of 1812—but that’s only if they managed to survive the journey. Many of the new arrivals were desperately poor, paid very little for their passage and were treated as nothing more than cargo by shipping companies.

Dallas Morning News

An anti-human trafficking activist in North Texas has filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Nevada in a bid to end legalized prostitution there. The complaint, filed Monday morning in Reno by Rebekah Charleston, contends that Nevada's legal brothels are in violation of federal law preventing interstate commerce in prostitution, and that the market created by those brothels contributes to illegal sex trafficking. It names the state of Nevada, its Legislature and Gov. Steve Sisolak as defendants.

Yale Daily News

Our simple task in this Community Health Educators orientation activity was to order the cards from least to most intimate. On the completed intimacy spectrum, sex fell somewhere in the middle — less intimate than sharing a Netflix password.

Psychology Today

The benefits of appreciation are grounded in science, and important.