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UCLA faculty voice: I, too, am America

Professor Alain Mabanckou writes that the recent police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner show that much work remains to create an America worthy of the vision of African American artists and leaders of generations ago.

UCLA faculty voice: The morality of murder

Anthropology professor Alan Page Fiske writes in an op-ed that the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ attackers, like so many people who use violence, probably thought they were acting righteously.

Los Angeles needs to step up its charitable giving

UCLA’s Bill Parent, director of the Center for Civil Society at the Luskin School of Public Affairs, writes that L.A.-area residents’ stinginess jeopardizes society’s safety net, which depends significantly on private donations.

UCLA faculty voice: The fate of the war in Syria

History professor James Gelvin writes that the chances for negotiating a settlement in Syria might increase if the different players stopped examining the conflict in isolation.

A Thanksgiving to remember

Dr. Jeremy M. Blumberg, an assistant professor in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and surgical director of renal transplantation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, reminisces about a past Thanksgiving when he was asked to recover the organs of an infant who had drowned.

Children’s right to education: Where does the world stand?

On the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Dr. Jody Heymann, dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and founding director of the WORLD Policy Analysis Center, and co-authors Kristen Savage and Aleta Sprague examine the progress made toward securing children’s rights around the world.

UCLA faculty voice: Why don’t women rule the world?

That most people have never heard of Hatshepsut — a pharaoh of ancient Egypt, who was the greatest female ruler of the ancient world — is emblematic of the challenges women have always faced in politics, writes UCLA Egyptologist Kara Cooney.

The economy elects presidents, but presidents elect Congress

UCLA professor Lynn Vavreck writes in The New York Times that if the Democrats lose the Senate, it would follow recent electoral history for the party of an unpopular president. Also, watch a video of Vavreck speaking about political TV ads.
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