Nation, World + Society

Launched in 2006, VIP Scholars aims to increase the number of underserved students that are competitively eligible for places like UCLA and other selective universities.

Parks Forward — a state-appointed blue-ribbon commission with deep talent, knowledge and connections — issued detailed draft recommendations last week for sweeping changes to ensure the long-term sustainability of California's State Parks.

A study co-authored by a UCLA public policy professor found some positive effects in Rhode Island after the state accidentally made prostitution legal for seven years.

UCLA geographer Judith Carney is part of an international team of interdisciplinary researchers who have sequenced the complete genome of African rice (Oryza glaberrima). The findings were reported online Sunday in the scholarly journal Nature Genetics.

Law professor Jill Horwitz co-authors an op-ed criticizing the D.C. circuit court for acting a tool in the relentless search for legal flaws to tear down the landmark health care law.

Law students shoulder a heavy responsibility as they work for months to prepare a man from Africa for his one chance at being granted asylum.

The outlook is based on the recent Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast Commercial Real Estate Survey, which analyzes the three-year outlook for real estate development activity in California.

Russia's president took a big risk when he annexed Crimea and backed Ukraine separatists, writes Daniel Treisman, UCLA political science professor.

A new UCLA-led study suggests that a higher quality educational environment may help reduce health disparities and improve health outcomes.

Law professor Jennifer Mnookin writes that because of camera angles, close-ups and other filming techniques, videotaped confessions can be misleading.

Similarly to countries like Denmark and Sweden, American cities and towns have been spending more on programs for the poor and the middle class, funded by higher taxes on these groups.

The 'Needs Portal' enables caseworkers to find out in real time which community agencies are available to help families with urgent needs.

UCLA arts lecturer Tom Skelly spent 30 years working with inmates in the state prison in Chino. "I would do it again," he says.

In a Q&A with the Los Angeles Times, Villasenor explains how cryptocurrencies work, why they're unregulated and how they're valued.

UCLA School of Law professor Adam Winkler says Justice Breyer’s opinion in the recess appointments case deals a blow to constitutional originalism.

UCLA professor Edward Walker explains how corporations — from Verizon to Wal-Mart — manufacture citizen lobbyists.

Washington Post reporter Niraj Chokshi spoke with Mark Kleiman, a professor of public policy at UCLA, about the legalization of marijuana that has been approved by the voters in Washington state and Colorado.

Marking Ramadan as a "new American tradition" not only overlooks the holy month observed by enslaved Muslims many years ago, but also perpetuates their erasure from Muslim American history.

In Q&A with the Los Angeles Times, Shoup says much should be changed about how the city provides parking.

Law professor Adam Winkler says that minority groups could be at risk of losing legal protections after the Supreme Court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case.

A working group that includes UCLA's Susan D. Cochran says the removal of these disorders from the organization's classification system will make getting health care easier for gay individuals.

Economists Lee Ohanian of UCLA and Nobel laureate Edward Prescott of Arizona State University maintain that an important factor contributing to declining productivity growth is the large decline in the creation of new businesses.

Jack Rothman of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs writes that 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act black families currently own just one-tenth the assets of their white counterparts.

The UCLA Burkle Global Impact Initiative assisted in recruiting a diverse roster of film and music stars to appear in a new video for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

In an event co-sponsored by UCLA and Zocalo Public Square, Luskin School of Public Affairs Dean Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. and others disagree on Mayor Garcetti’s first year in office.