Opinion + Voices

Wesley K. Clark, a retired Army general and former NATO supreme allied commander for Europe, is a senior fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA. This op-ed appeared originally in The New York Times on June 17,...

John Villasenor is a professor of professor of electrical engineering and public policy at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. He writes about the intersection of technology, policy and the law. This column...

Chon A. Noriega is a professor in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA and the director of the Chicano Studies Research Center. This column appeared in the Huffington Post on June 7, 2013.      In the...

General Wesley Clark (ret.) is a senior fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations. This op-ed appeared originally in the Washington Post on June 6.       President Obama’s talks with Chinese President Xi...

UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection."As we've gotten to this sort of zero-tolerance mentality, that kind of policy has been especially applied to poor kids...

Shlomo Benartzi (far left) is professor at the Anderson School of Management. John Payne is at Duke University, where he is the Joseph J. Ruvane Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business, as well as professor of...

David N. Myers teaches Jewish history and chairs the UCLA History Department. This op-ed originally appeared in the Jewish Journal on May 29, 2013.     With Eric Garcetti’s election on May 21, the mayors of the three largest cities...

UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.     "Prolonged sitting is not what nature intended for us.” Dr. Camelia Davtyan, clinical professor of...

Joanna Schwartz is an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Law, who has a forthcoming article in the New York University Law Review that shows how medical malpractice claims help play a role in improving patient safety. This op-ed was...

Alvaro Huerta, a UCLA visiting scholar at the Chicano Studies Research Center, is the author of the forthcoming book, "Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm," by San Diego State University Press. This op-ed was...

Mark Wise, trained at the United States Air Force Academy as an Army infantry officer, was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 as a platoon leader, where he suffered severe injuries when an explosive device detonated just inches away from him. He...

UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection. "We're always counting on science to tell us where we came from." David Paige, professor in the UCLA Department of...

Peter Nonacs is a professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at UCLA. He studies the evolution of social behavior across species, ranging from viruses, to insects, to mammals and even occasionally humans. His commentary appeared...

John Villasenor is professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. This op-ed was posted on Slate on April 23,...

John Ullmen John Ullmen is a lecturer on leadership at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and overseas MotivationRules.com. Dr.Mark Goulston, is a business psychiatrist, executive consultant, keynote speaker and co-founder of Heartfelt...

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is a distinguished professor and dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Carola Suárez-Orozco is professor of education and co-director of the UCLA Institute for...

Jeffrey Simon is a visiting lecturer of political science at UCLA, an expert on terrorism and political violence, and author of a newly released book, “Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat” (Prometheus, 2013). This...

Kent Wong is director of the UCLA Labor Center, where he teaches courses in labor studies and Asian American studies. He wrote this commentary at the invitation of the Los Angeles Times, which asked Angelenos what the next L.A....

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is a professor of education at UCLA. Her essay appeared in the Huffington Post on April 15, 2012.   I chose to celebrate my fifth post-cancer birthday by inviting people to do acts of kindness, because during a...

Peter Reiher, an adjunct professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has done extensive research on denial-of-service attacks and other Internet security issues. This op-ed originally appeared...

UCLA staff and faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.   Thatcher and Reagan were “kind of like a tag team, dynamic duo; bringing [their economic] policies to...

Teri Schwartz is dean of the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA. This piece was published in Forbes Magazine on April 7, 2013.        Story.   It is the timeless, universal language that ties...

When high-speed rail links smaller cities to mega-cities, both cities benefit, says Prof Matthew Kahn. In China, housing prices in smaller cities grew 4.2 percent, and if austerity doesn't derail investment, California's high-speed plans could fuel similar booms, Kahn says.

Devon Carbado, a professor at the UCLA School of Law, is a nationally recognized figure in the field of critical race theory and is actively involved in shaping a nationwide discourse on race, identity and the law. Mitu Gulati is a professor at...

 UCLA staff and faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.   “Much more work must be done on the television diversity front before the corps of writers...