Nation, World + Society

Douglas Kellner talks about gun culture in the United States, societal changes that need to be made and the media’s contributions to violent culture.

In 47 countries, the minimum legal age for employment is below 15, despite evidence that work at an early age is associated with negative effects on health and education.

Q&A with John Agnew, distinguished professor of geography and Italian at UCLA, who was awarded the Vautrin Lud Prize.

UCLA hosted scholars and activists to master the tools of research to advance safe shelter as a human right.

Tony Pritzker said the gift is an investment in “research that will help sustain the future of our planet.”

Selected excerpts from the writings and speeches of UCLA alumnus Ralph J. Bunche, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for securing an armistice after the creation of Israel. His birthday is Aug. 7, 1904.

Free online tool updated to include solar capacity and six more years of data, as California aims for 100% renewable energy.

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs launches international outreach to identify strategies to empower women and children.

Activists on a panel co-sponsored by UCLA preached the roles of persistence, patience and bipartisan cooperation in getting the FIRST STEP Act through Congress.

When fathers are involved in the care of their children, men and women are more upset about infidelities, according to the UCLA-led cross-cultural research.

Associate dean for information studies Anne Gilliland sees parallels between post-conflict Croatia and Bosnia and efforts to preserve heritage in her native country.

UCLA graduate students spent months studying ways to make sure a pending major redevelopment effort does not displace people already living there.

Sarah T. Roberts profiles the hidden workforce that monitors objectionable material on the internet, often to its own detriment

The UCLA Film & Television Archive has introduced a digital portal showcasing local news footage of Tom Bradley, Los Angeles’ first African American mayor.

UCLA’s Monica Smith tracks the ways metropolitan hubs in different parts of the world emerged unrelated to one another, but in similar forms.

UCLA School of Law’s soccer expert, Steven Bank, weighs in on the legal issues facing the beautiful game.

UCLA professor of law, sociology and Chicana and Chicano studies Laura Gómez shares five key takeaways from the court’s decision.

The Loeb Awards are the top honor in business journalism.

Harold Torrence, associate professor of linguistics in the UCLA College, became enamored of linguistics as an undergraduate at the University of Georgia.

A UCLA study found that many countries have taken important steps to align national laws with a 2006 treaty, but others have not gone far enough.

A report on California’s economy found that the state’s rapid job growth is slowing down.

In this Q&A about their book, UCLA faculty Douglas Kellner and Jeff Share discuss the role critical media literacy plays in our information-overloaded world.

Q&A with UCLA’s Adam Romero and co-author Abbie Goldberg about their new book on marriage dissolution.

“Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race” also provides insight into the history of Southern California’s Inland Empire.

Funds will be directed to the the UCLA Labor Center and the UCLA Institute for Immigration, Globalization, and Education.