opinion

UCLA's national parking expert, Donald Shoup, says that when a city temporarily suspends parking meters it often backfires for the businesses it was meant to help.

Professor Yoram Cohen suggests that water reclamation, water recycling and reuse could become very important for health and conservation in the future.

Eric Cantor's surprising primary defeat by a Tea Party candidate doesn't necessarily mean primary voters are more extreme. UCLA professor Lynn Vavreck looks at the numbers and finds little difference between primary and general election voters.

Daniela Cusack and her fellow scientists who have been working for two years on finding a strategy to reduce global warming have concluded that we cannot engineer our way out of climate change.

With the world's attention focused on Brazil and its social problems, Gary Rhodes, a UCLA expert on global education, calls for using the World Cup games to build international understanding.

UCLA professor of economics Lee Ohanian looks at the evolution of sports teams as billionaire must-haves and how exorbitant sales prices impact fans.

As the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's demise approaches, UCLA political scientist Daniel Treisman evaluates how former Soviet bloc countries have fared in post-communism Eastern Europe.

Ivo Welch is a professor of finance and economics at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. His op-ed ran June 6 in the Los Angeles Times.

Mike Stajura, a doctoral candidate at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, advises against the excessive use of the word "hero" when talking about him and other military veterans.

It takes a combination of an economist's analytical skills plus a writer's understanding of narrative to understand how inequality affects people, says UCLA education researcher Mike Rose.

UCLA Anderson finance professor Ivo Welch explains why university divestment plans don't make as much of a difference as students hope.

Opinion: How a terrible Supreme Court decision about player pianos created the cover song and laid a foundation for creativity.

UCLA social psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff says that big data can help to make the world a better place — not be known only as an invasion of privacy.

UCLA professor John Villasenor says that though it may seem odd, we already have the laws we need for dealing with this inevitable situation.

The results at UCLA Community School demonstrate that openness, creativity and resources can help lead these students to college.

A state commission's report says a non-profit parks support organization is needed to help the state agency modernize its technology and restructure.

Janet Napolitano is the president of the University of California system. Her article appeared April 25 in the Washington Post op-ed section.

Our national system for delivering high-quality cancer care is groaning under the weight of an increasing patient population, spiraling costs and an impending shortage of qualified providers. Cancer-care expert Dr. Patricia A. Ganz talks about the sweeping changes that must be made.

Analysis finds home prices are rising at an unsustainable rate and that many mortgages would not perform well under economic stress.

Edward Leamer, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, evaluates the factors that have stunted the growth of the Los Angeles job market over the past several decades.

A military veteran and former foster youth, Mike Stajura, a UCLA doctoral student, finds that the Fort Hood community is no different than other places in America that have experienced the violence of mass shootings.

 'Blood Royals' by UCLA's Eric Jager tells the story of a gory murder and its incredible investigation in 15th century Paris.

Mona Simpson looks back on her precarious financial status at UC Berkeley and her beginnings as a writer.

Increasingly, legislative and judicial actions sacrifice individual rights at the altar of anti-discrimination law, the authors argue.

We need to proceed cautiously, says UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, lest low-income students are forced into online degree programs as the only affordable option.