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Nevada

Science Religion

Loving the Alien

How UFO culture took over America.

Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Aug 2020 40min Permalink

Science

The Darkest Town In America

On light pollution and a place called Gerlach.

Oliver Roeder FiveThirtyEight Feb 2017 20min Permalink

Travel

Lost Highway

A writer who went astray takes a road trip through the ruins of the American West.

Brian Phillips MTV Jun 2016 10min Permalink

Sports

How Did Lamar Odom Fall So Far?

Everything that happened before former NBA star Lamar Odom suffered multiple strokes on the floor of a Pahrump brothel.

Ramona Shelburne ESPN Oct 2015 15min Permalink

Science

Wasteland

The fifty-year battle over where we store our nuclear remains.

Matt Stroud The Verge Jun 2012 40min Permalink

Travel

Why Not the Worst?

A search for the “armpit of America” ends in Battle Mountain, Nevada.

Gene Weingarten Washington Post Dec 2001 30min Permalink

Politics

Desert Storm

A report from Nevada, where an economy in crisis and a Tea Party upstart are threatening to topple Harry Reid, the most nationally powerful politician in the state’s history.

Nicholas Lemann New Yorker Oct 2010 30min Permalink

Sex

The Family Prostitute

The Great Recession’s impact on the legalized prostitution industry in Nevada: more hookers, fewer johns.

Michael Albo LA Weekly Sep 2010 20min Permalink