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Two UCLA engineering professors say that it's crucial for engineers to understand the hazards that threaten our levees to ensure that California's fresh water delivery system remains protected in the future.

Gen. Wesley Clark, senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, says the U.S. response to the ISIS threat in the Middle East must combine diplomatic and economic assistance to our allies, with a more limited military commitment.

Dean Marcelo Suárez-Orozco says that as families are fleeing inequality and violence, keeping them apart fixes nothing.

UCLA Anderson assistant dean for diversity initiatives says that L.A.'s rich diversity makes it an ideal setting for forging leaders in our multicultural world.

Luskin Dean Franklin Gilliam says citing statistics about racial disparities can be persuasive for reform advocates, contrasting a recent Stanford study that said the statistics were an ineffective persuasive tool.

Urban planning professor Donald Shoup says that property owners should be required to fix their broken sidewalks when they sell their property.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block writes about the new science behind the disruption wrought by jet lag, unusual hours and bright tablet screens.

The goals of the Bank of England's financial policy committee are to maintain financial stability and support the government's objectives for growth and employment. So why do we need a committee to oversee financial stability?

To speed up the opening of new transportation projects, California should streamline its environmental review and approval process, writes law professor Ethan Elkind.

Intellectual property — patents, copyright, trademarks, trade secrets — plays a vital role in economic growth and prosperity. Yet outside of law schools, most American colleges provide little or no opportunity for students to receive any substantive instruction in it.

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.

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, a professor of law at UCLA, said My Brother’s Keeper, a program backed by President Obama, highlights one of the most significant contradictions of his efforts to remain a friend to women while navigating the tricky terrain.

Judy Olian, dean of UCLA Anderson, has nine recommendations for creating a more welcoming and diverse environment.

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

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.

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.

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.

Three UCLA geriatrics and gerontology faculty members are among those at the forefront of the effort to change the way medicine is delivered to an aging population.