Opinion + Voices

Opinion: How a terrible Supreme Court decision about player pianos created the cover song and laid a foundation for creativity.

UCLA social psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff says that big data can help to make the world a better place — not be known only as an invasion of privacy.

UCLA professor John Villasenor says that though it may seem odd, we already have the laws we need for dealing with this inevitable situation.

The results at UCLA Community School demonstrate that openness, creativity and resources can help lead these students to college.

A state commission's report says a non-profit parks support organization is needed to help the state agency modernize its technology and restructure.

Janet Napolitano is the president of the University of California system. Her article appeared April 25 in the Washington Post op-ed section.

Our national system for delivering high-quality cancer care is groaning under the weight of an increasing patient population, spiraling costs and an impending shortage of qualified providers. Cancer-care expert Dr. Patricia A. Ganz talks about the sweeping changes that must be made.

Analysis finds home prices are rising at an unsustainable rate and that many mortgages would not perform well under economic stress.

Edward Leamer, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, evaluates the factors that have stunted the growth of the Los Angeles job market over the past several decades.

A military veteran and former foster youth, Mike Stajura, a UCLA doctoral student, finds that the Fort Hood community is no different than other places in America that have experienced the violence of mass shootings.

 'Blood Royals' by UCLA's Eric Jager tells the story of a gory murder and its incredible investigation in 15th century Paris.

Mona Simpson looks back on her precarious financial status at UC Berkeley and her beginnings as a writer.

Increasingly, legislative and judicial actions sacrifice individual rights at the altar of anti-discrimination law, the authors argue.

We need to proceed cautiously, says UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, lest low-income students are forced into online degree programs as the only affordable option.

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, project director with the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education where he teaches classes in labor studies, talks about the first biopic to feature iconic Chicano labor leader Cesar Chavez.

William J. McCarthy, UCLA adjunct professor of public health, writes about the failed experiment to improve on Mother Nature’s options for fatty food by using “healthier” trans fat.

UCLA's Eugene Volokh, the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law, says that the Colorado law is ill-defined and wide open to arbitrary enforcement.

Granting businesses a religious exemption from offering health care plans that cover birth control, says UCLA law professor Adam Winkler, would open the door to religious-based discrimination against LGBT people.

President Obama should exercise his executive privileges by halting deportations and providing immediate relief to the millions of undocumented immigrants living in the shadows.

UCLA law professor Adam Winkler argues that Hobby Lobby should lose its challenge to Obamacare at the Supreme Court, because corporations have some personal rights.

It becomes difficult to rely on the right public policy measures when we're not able to isolate precisely why our population’s weight skyrocketed at the end of the 20th century and has since stabilized.

Postdoctoral scholar Nicole Mirra questions claims that the Common Core emphasizes civic responsibility and looks at what the new standards are really doing to prepare students to be citizens.

Hollywood serves as the guardian of public accolades for excellence in film and representation. Yet, its gatekeepers are still overwhelmingly white, male and old, while the world it seeks to depict is the opposite.

A recent court ruling banning San Jose high school students from wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo prompted David Hayes-Bautista to write about the roots of Cinco de Mayo, which is, at its heart, a Mexican American holiday.

Brenda E. Stevenson is professor of history at UCLA. She is the past chair of the history department and past chair of Afro-American Studies. Her books include the award-winning "Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South" and...