Opinion + Voices

It becomes difficult to rely on the right public policy measures when we're not able to isolate precisely why our population’s weight skyrocketed at the end of the 20th century and has since stabilized.

Andrew Flores is the Public Opinion Project director at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law and Ph.D candidate of political science at UC Riverside. This commentary appeared in the March 19, 2014, edition of the Washington...

Postdoctoral scholar Nicole Mirra questions claims that the Common Core emphasizes civic responsibility and looks at what the new standards are really doing to prepare students to be citizens.

Hollywood serves as the guardian of public accolades for excellence in film and representation. Yet, its gatekeepers are still overwhelmingly white, male and old, while the world it seeks to depict is the opposite.

A recent court ruling banning San Jose high school students from wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo prompted David Hayes-Bautista to write about the roots of Cinco de Mayo, which is, at its heart, a Mexican American holiday.

Brenda E. Stevenson is professor of history at UCLA. She is the past chair of the history department and past chair of Afro-American Studies. Her books include the award-winning "Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South" and...

D’Artagnan Scorza is the founder and executive director of the Social Justice Learning Institute in Inglewood, Calif. Scorza obtained a Ph.D. in education from UCLA, along with a B.A. in religion. He is currently a 2013-14 BALLE Fellow....

Matthew Kahn is a professor of public policy at the Luskin School of Public Affairs as well as the Department of Economics and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. He is also research director at the Ziman Center for Real Estate at...

Adam Winkler is a professor of law at UCLA School of Law and the author of "Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America." This op-ed appeared in the Los Angeles Times  on Feb. 23.        What's...

Stephanie Pincetl (left) is director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. Terri Hogue is an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and the associate...

Phillip Goff is an assistant psychology professor at UCLA and director of the university’s Center for Policing Equity. Sherrilyn Ifill is president of NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Goff is leading a project to create the...

Shlomo Benartzi is professor and co-chair of the behavioral decision-making group at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and chief behavioral economist of the Allianz Global Investors Center for Behavioral Finance. This op-ed appeared Feb. 20,...

Gary Rhodes is director of the Center for Global Education at UCLA. He has co-written a chapter in a recently published book, “Olympism, Olympic Education, and Learning Legacies” (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing....

John Villasenor is a professor of electrical engineering and public policy at UCLA and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. This column appeared Feb 17. on Slate.       There has been a lot of...

Jared Diamond is professor of geography and environmental health sciences at UCLA. His best-selling books include "The Third Chimpanzee; Guns, Germs, and Steel," which received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction; "Why Is Sex Fun?"; "Collapse";...

Boom magazine asked Alessandro Duranti, author and distinguished professor of anthropology and dean of social sciences at the UCLA College of Letters and Science, how universities will intersect with society in 2050.

Dylan H. Roby is the director of health economics and evaluation research at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and an assistant professor of health policy and management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. This op-ed was posted...

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a professor at the UCLA School of Law. She is also the faculty director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at the Columbia Law School. She is the co-founder of the African...

Victor Narro is the project director of the UCLA Downtown Labor Center, which provides leadership programs for Los Angeles’ immigrant workers and internship opportunities for UCLA students. He is the co-editor of the book, "Working for...

A UCLA alum draws on his experience to advocate for speaking patients' language and bringing health fairs to the community.

Daniel Treisman is a professor of political science at UCLA, and author of "The Return: Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev." This op-ed appeared Feb. 3 on CNN.      As Russian President Vladimir Putin opens the Winter...

Michael Suk-Young Chwe, a political scientist at UCLA., is the author of “Jane Austen, Game Theorist. ” This op-ed appeared in the New York Times on Jan. 31.       Science is in crisis, just when we need it most. Two...

Frederick Zimmerman is a professor and chair of health policy and management at Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA. His op-ed appeared Jan. 27 in JAMA Pediatrics.

Ethan N. Elkind researches and writes on environmental law with a joint appointment at the UCLA and UC Berkeley schools of law. He is the author of the new book "Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the...

Jon Christensen is a UCLA adjunct assistant professor, senior researcher and journalist-in-residence in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. He also has a joint appointment in the history department. This piece...