Nevada academics wasted no time jumping into an election post mortem. The Brookings Institute held a post-election panel discussion Wednesday where they analyzed the previous night’s “blue wave,” in which Democrats claimed victory in almost all statewide races. Panelists included Brookings Mountain West Executive Director Robert Lang, UNLV political science professor David Damore, Brookings fellow John Hudak and Women’s Research Institute of Nevada Director Rebecca Gill.

In Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel Les Misérables, a police officer named Inspector Javert endlessly pursues the hero, Jean Valjean, for stealing a loaf of bread. Javert would probably be great at ending music piracy, based on the findings of a new paper from the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.

Precise scientific analysis of formulations shows fear of threatened privacy.

Political science professor Dan Lee joins us out of Las Vegas to break down the key U.S. midterm races in Nevada.

Nevada could help decide the balance of power in Washington going forward.

STOP! This is illegal. You may be monitored and fined.

Privacy threats are just as effective at scaring off illegal downloaders as big fines

The race for Nevada's senate seat has become one of the tightest in the country. And in an election where control of the Senate could come down to a single swing in a single seat, all eyes are on the battle between incumbent Republican Dean Heller and his Democratic challenger, Jacky Rosen.

Since declaring his candidacy for Nevada governor in March, Ryan Bundy hasn’t mustered much of a campaign. He has only raised about $37,000 in cash, most of it from out of state, and $24,000 of in-kind donations. Not even his famous father, anti-government rancher Cliven Bundy, has donated to his campaign. Bundy’s campaign has spent less than $15,000 on ads, though it did spring for about $325 worth of western wear at a Las Vegas Boot Barn.

Sheldon Adelson is supporting an initiative that wants residents in Nevada to choose their electricity supplier from 2023. Berkshire's NV Energy, which belongs to Warren Buffett, currently has a monopoly in this market. The dispute over this issue has already moved almost 100 million dollars.

Whether in villages on the coast of Ghana or in the mountains of Rwanda, asking for people's poop is a good icebreaker, Mathieu Groussin says. "Everybody laughs," says Groussin, a microbiologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. "Especially when we stress that we need the whole fecal sample and show them the big bowl."

When is it too much?

When does a city whose cursed baseball team fed a gargantuan sense of civic grievance and self-pity lose something by winning again and again?