Experts In The News
During the 19th Century, the activity of "retro-walking" was little more than an eccentric hobby, but today research is revealing it can have real benefits for your health and brain.
In this interview, exclusive for CounterPunch, professor of Political Science at the Ê×Ò³| Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³», Nerses Kopalyan, breaks down the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict. After providing a historical context for the conflict from a political science point of view, he analyzes the ways in which the media unpacks the region and presents historical and contemporary analogs.
Two big unions reached contract agreements with the three largest resort operators ahead of a series of events crucial to the city’s economic rebound.
MGM Resorts International, the largest employer on the Las Vegas Strip, was close to reaching a tentative deal with the hotel workers union, the casino company’s CEO said as the clock ticked closer to a union deadline for a sweeping strike.
Is Las Vegas going to run out of water? It might feel that way if you’ve been paying any attention to the growing bathtub ring around Lake Mead, the shrinking Colorado River and federal actions to try to keep the river’s main reservoirs in working order.
Travelers may have an additional step at the airport this holiday season. The CDC is expanding its testing of international air travelers for flu, RSV, COVID-19, and other viruses.
Jason Steffen is a physics professor at UNLV, and formerly at Northwestern. He came up with a method for boarding airplanes efficiently but it hasn't been adopted by an airline. Still, with United Airlines new boarding scheme, the whole concept is fascinating.
In a little over a year some room prices the Las Vegas Review-Journal has been tracking at four Caesars Entertainment properties have fallen as much as 75 percent leading up to race weekend Nov. 16-18., since first posted in November 2022.
