Nation, World + Society

Second annual Quality of Life Index shows how residents feel about some of the Trump administration’s policies and also includes opinions on traffic, cost of living and gentrification.

“The New Criminal Justice Thinking,” which UCLA’s Sharon Dolovich edited with professor Alexandra Natapoff of Loyola Law School, includes 14 essays by scholars, sociologists and criminologists who train their eyes on the system’s hidden corners.

Study from UCLA and other research partners suggests more data collections in conjunction with increasing access to immunizations.

Ideas in the unsuccessful legislation could be reintroduced in the future, the authors say.

Dean Gary Segura sees parallels between California history and current national debate over immigration.

Herbie Huff notes that dynamic tolling, which varies toll prices to sync with demand, is a far cheaper option for easing congestion than adding lanes to freeways.

Ramesh Srinivasan, an associate professor of information studies, has studied revolutions in Egypt and Kyrgyzstan and the role of digital media in supporting indigenous communities.

Historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez corrects the revisionist history of Operation Wetback, which in fact eased immigration law enforcement in the U.S.-Mexico border region.

UCLA's Congo Basin Institute led a team of UCLA and Cameroonian students into a rain forest in central Africa to reopen a field station in a jungle with a thriving ecosystem with birds, elephants and monkeys.

While California has been a winner in the free trade world market in terms of its agricultural exports, gains in technology and location on the Pacific rim in close proximity to Asia, manufacturing centers in the Midwest like Detroit have lost good-paying union jobs.

Carol Bakhos is a professor of late antique Judaism and Jewish studies in UCLA’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Born and bred in Brooklyn, New York, Bakhos says people are often surprised when she says she is not Jewish.

David Hirsch is the librarian for Jewish, Middle Eastern, Central Asian, South Asian and Armenian studies at UCLA Library. It’s unusual for one person to have responsibility for so many different regions.

More than 10,000 adults offered their thoughts on health care reform, immigration, taxes, climate change, Black Lives Matter and other public policy issues.

The report projects robust job growth and increased defense spending.

South African prisoners, sickened miners and others whose human rights have been violated are gaining access to justice, thanks to a UCLA School of Law program that offers full scholarships and training to African lawyers who then take up their cause.

Professor Daniel Oppenheimer co-authored a study saying that universities must do more to track student improvement.

John Agnew, UCLA distinguished professor of geography, has spent his scholarly career examining the politics of place.

UCLA’s Leah Boustan looks at how the influx of millions of black workers from the South reshaped labor markets and neighborhoods in the North and West.

Now in its 20th year, the UCLA Law Fellows program, run by UCLA School of Law, demystifies law school for undergraduates from various colleges and universities, who aspire to law careers.

Stan Kasten’s proclamation came during his keynote conversation with UCLA Anderson professor Sanjay Sood, faculty director of the UCLA Anderson Center for Management of Enterprise in Media, Entertainment and Sports.

Impoverished locals in Mai Adrasha panning for tiny flakes of gold have dismantled much of what in other parts of the country has been preserved as tourist destinations.

To explain why L.A.'s fortunes started to fall and the Bay Area's began to rise, Michael Storper and Zev Yaroslavsky discuss what happened after 1970.

Bret Stephens gave an eloquent, impassioned defense of the truth and the journalist’s responsibility to search it out.

Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos has woven together his interests in global health, medicine and culture into a career as a medical anthropologist.

UCLA hosted Richard Riordan, James Hahn and Antonio Villaraigosa as part of the “Why History Matters: Mayors Past on the Present and Future of Los Angeles.”