Nation, World + Society

Why are so many Americans in prison? Between 1975 and 2007, the American incarceration rate increased nearly fivefold, a historic increase that puts the United States in a league of its own among advanced economies.

University of California President Janet Napolitano and several UC chancellors joined President Obama and education leaders from around the country at a higher education summit aimed at making college more accessible to low-income students.

Donald Shoup, distinguished professor of urban planning in the Luskin School of Public Affairs, has become the nation’s oft-quoted, go-to expert on parking. 

In 2013, people with unique experience and expertise in world affairs on many levels came from every corner of the globe to participate in events at the UCLA International Institute and its affiliated centers. 

Rep. Raul Ruiz, a 1994 graduate, was dubbed by Politico as a freshman lawmaker most likely to succeed. The 41-year-old California Democrat from the Coachella Valley is a member of No Labels, a group of almost 100 Republicans and Democrats dedicated to ending partisan gridlock.

UCLA psychology professor and director of the university’s Center for Policing Equity to lead project that was initiated by police chiefs.

Hundreds of distinguished alumni, faculty and students gathered Dec. 2 for the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate’s 2013 Winter Forum, giving attendees the unique opportunity to hear from former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

The American health care system ranked 22nd out of 27 high-income industrialized nations in terms of its ability to turn health dollars spent into extended lives.

UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies joined the Los Angeles Unified School District and nonprofit Code.org to collectively launch the Los Angeles segment of National Computer Science Education Week at the UCLA Community School Dec. 10.

As experts on immigration’s impact on children and youth, Professor Carola and Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, both of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, presented two talks at the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences at the Casina Pio IV in Vatican City.

So few Angelenos voted this year that Eric Garcetti was elected mayor with just 222,300 votes — the same number it took to get elected mayor in the 1930s, when L.A. was half its present size. At a “Thinking L.A.” event Thursday...

The economy is growing despite the self-inflicted wounds of the government shutdown and the effects of the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act, UCLA economists say.

Los Angeles County has a rare opportunity to make sweeping and necessary improvements to the way it rehabilitates incarcerated youth as it moves forward with a project to replace Camp Vernon J. Kilpatrick, a dilapidated all-boys camp in the hills...

Students at predominantly Latino Roosevelt High School are reaching beyond their own neighborhood and culture to study the language, music and traditional theater of China through the Chinese Alive! program.   A...

Young Latinas who have Latino teachers and counselors as role models and participate in extracurricular activities in high school have a much better chance of educational success.

Parents who are poor and members of a minority group experienced more financial stress and more stress from major life events than parents who are either just poor or just part of a minority group.

Can music create a connection that years of politics and diplomacy have failed to build? Faculty and students at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music think that music can build such a bridge.

UCLA has the second-largest moving image archive in the United States after the Library of Congress, and the world’s largest university-based media archive.

As Congress and the Obama administration try to reach agreement on a spending plan for 2014, University of California leaders are urging that the repeal of sequestration be a top budget priority.

Seniors' increasing diversity affects their ability to provide for younger family members, as well as their need to rely on the family safety net themselves.

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design has announced it will work with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. for its 2014–15 master of architecture II program known as SUPRASTUDIO.

With housing prices climbing dramatically this year, the Los Angeles region's expanding transit corridors may offer the best opportunity for the development of new workforce housing, according to a new UCLA Anderson School of Management report.

Now housed in the UCLA Department of English, the University of California Press magazine is produced by Jon Christensen with support from UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.

Racial diversity does make a marked difference to television's bottom line, said UCLA's Darnell Hunt, director of the Bunche Center for African American Studies and author of the new study.

The strategy offers an object lesson for other campus departments battered by the recession and retirements.