Tag: Las Vegas
Drought can hit almost anywhere: How 5 cities that nearly ran...
Sara Hughes, University of Michigan and Michael Wilson, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Water scarcity is often viewed as an...
The Super Bowl gets the Vegas treatment, with 1 in 4...
Thomas Oates, University of Iowa
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A record 67.8 million American adults are expected...
Ads, food and gambling galore − 5 essential reads for the...
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
On Sunday in Las Vegas, the Kansas City Chiefs will be looking to win their...
The Super Bowl gets the Vegas treatment, with 1 in 4...
Thomas Oates, University of Iowa
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A record 67.8 million American adults are expected...
March Madness: With gambling legal in eight states, who really wins?
John Affleck, Pennsylvania State University
March means springtime, but also breathless headlines of Cinderellas, busted brackets and buzzer beaters.
This year, it’ll also include talk of...
How Macau became the world’s casino capital
William Vlcek, University of St Andrews
Macau is China’s answer to Las Vegas. But the former Portuguese colony has long surpassed the City of Lights...
MGM is suing the victims of the worst mass shooting in...
Timothy D. Lytton, Georgia State University
Last October, Stephen Paddock unleashed a barrage of automatic gunfire from a 32nd-floor hotel room overlooking a large crowd...
In Las Vegas, excess and fantasy bleed into tragedy
Mark Gottdiener, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
In Sin City, people often do bad things to themselves.
Rather than deal with...