Opinion + Voices

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is dean and a distinguished professor of education at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. He is the author of many books including "Educating the Whole Child for the Whole World." This op-ed appeared...

Mike Rose is a professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and the author of several books, most recently “Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education," and “Public Education Under...

Barry O’Neill is a professor of political science, whose work applies game theory to study foreign policy decisions, with a view to preventing war. He is the author of "Honor, Symbols, and War" (University of Michigan Press, 1999), which won the...

John Laslett (far left) is a research professor of history and author of "Sunshine Was Never Enough: Los Angeles Workers, 1880-2010." Chris Tilly is a professor of urban planning and director of the Institute for Research on Labor and...

UCLA professor Glen MacDonald notes that threats to water supplies and air quality by California's Rim Fire and the earlier Black Forest Fire in Colorado should send city dwellers an important message: even distant wildfire is part of their lives.

Retired general Wesley Clark, the former supreme commander of NATO, led alliance military forces in the Kosovo war in 1999. He is a senior fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA. This commentary appeared in Zocalo Public...

UCLA Prof Tom Smith has conducted research in the West African nation of Cameroon for 30 years, and sees the country's remarkable biodiversity and resources threatened by much-needed but ill-managed economic growth.

Laurence C. Smith is professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Geography and author of "The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future." This article appeared Tuesday, Aug. 27, in Strategy + Business.   As the ice...

Steven L. Spiegel is professor of political Science and director of the Center for Middle East Development at UCLA, and also provides assistance to Middle East programs at the statewide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation of the UC San...

Jon Christensen is an adjunct assistant professor and Pritzker fellow in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the department of history at the UCLA. This article appeared Aug. 21 in The New Yorker.   The Hyperloop,...

Brenda Stevenson is a UCLA professor of history and African-American studies, as well as author of "Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South" and the forthcoming book "What is Slavery?" This op-ed appeared Aug. 19 on the...

James Gelvin is a professor of modern Middle East history at UCLA. He is author of "The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know." This post appeared on The New York Times website Aug. 14 in the Room for Debate section, in which knowledgeable...

Three UCLA School of Law professors, Devon Carbado, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw and Cheryl Harris, co-director of the Critical Race Studies Program, have cowritten an article about how despite a recent federal court decision banning stop-and-frisk...

Nina Shapiro, a professor in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery and director of pediatric otolaryngology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is the author of "Take a Deep Breath: Clear the Air for the Health of Your...

Patricia Turner is dean and vice provost for undergraduate education at UCLA. She teaches about African American culture and is the author of four books on the subject. This op-ed appeared Saturday, Aug. 03 in the Sacramento Bee.   Sunday is...

David Shulman is a retired Wall Street executive who is now a senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast. He is also affiliated with Baruch College. This op-ed appeared in US News and World Report on July 31, 2013.   After being...

UCLA faculty members are quoted every day in the national media on a wide range of topical subjects. Here is a recent selection.   “The technique of functional MRI (fMRI), which measures changes in localized brain activity over time, can...

John Villasenor is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor of electrical engineering and public policy at UCLA. This piece originally appeared in the Atlantic on July 26, 2013.   We don't have a mind reading...

Three UCLA School of Law professors, Devon Carbado, coauthor of "Acting White: Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America," Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, executive director of the African American Policy Forum, and Cheryl Harris, co-director of the...

Gary Orfield is the professor of education, law, political science and urban planning at UCLA. He is co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA. The Moyers and Company website featured a column that was posted on...

Roger E. A. Farmer is distinguished professor of economics at UCLA and currently Senior Houblon Norman Fellow at the Bank of England. This op-ed appreared in the Financial Times on July 18, 2013.   Ben Bernanke suggested in June that the...

Stefan Timmermans is a professor and chair of the UCLA department of sociology and faculty associate with the Institute for Society and Genetics. He is the author of the book "Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening." This op-ed...

Robin D.G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History. Kelley's research and teaching cover the history of labor and radical movements in the United States, the African Diaspora, and Africa; intellectual and cultural history...

Brenda E. Stevenson is professor of history at UCLA and the author of "The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins:  Justice, Gender and the Origins of the L.A. Riots." This piece appeared originally on the History News Network website on July 15,...

Khaled M. Abou El Fadl is the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor in Islamic Law at the UCLA School of Law and the author of "The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam From the Extremists." This op-ed was originally published July 7 in The New...