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Ideas in the unsuccessful legislation could be reintroduced in the future, the authors say.

Dean Gary Segura sees parallels between California history and current national debate over immigration.

Historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez corrects the revisionist history of Operation Wetback, which in fact eased immigration law enforcement in the U.S.-Mexico border region.

The program started in 2001 with 36 participants from disadvantaged homes in Los Angeles. Eight years later, Martin was at the White House to receive the nation’s highest honor for an arts-based youth program.

More than 10,000 adults offered their thoughts on health care reform, immigration, taxes, climate change, Black Lives Matter and other public policy issues.

The report projects robust job growth and increased defense spending.

John Agnew, UCLA distinguished professor of geography, has spent his scholarly career examining the politics of place.

UCLA’s Leah Boustan looks at how the influx of millions of black workers from the South reshaped labor markets and neighborhoods in the North and West.

Bret Stephens gave an eloquent, impassioned defense of the truth and the journalist’s responsibility to search it out.

The percentage of black students who attend completely or almost-completely non-white schools has declined since the 1990s but remains above 70 percent.

When protests erupted after President Trump signed his executive order on immigration last month, more than 200 UCLA School of Law students jumped into action.

Lynn Vavreck notes that in 2016 more people care about the party of their future in-law than cared in 1958, and there is more desire for same-party marriage than there was in the 1950s.

The show marks 10 years of influential research from UCLA’s urban planning and architecture think tank.

Law professor Aslı Bâli explains how a previous effort following 9/11 called National Security Entry-Exit Registration System failed to achieve its goals.

History professor and presidential historian Robert Dallek recalls former presidents speaking up to defend their legacies and achievements.

The youngest age group has the highest estimated percentage of individuals who identify as transgender.

The program is designed to better prepare its graduates for their next career move, be it pursuing a Ph.D. or landing a job as a multifaceted researcher in the corporate or nonprofit world.

The pain of loneliness can cut deeper than a knife. But its implications go beyond inner turmoil and the corrosion of emotional health. It can contribute to a host of debilitating and sometimes lethal diseases.

Tyrone Howard's Black Male Institute at UCLA focuses on finding ways to propel black male youth to college and prepare them for success in academia and professional life.

Economist Lee Ohanian on how the president-elect’s plans to reduce globalization and immigration could undermine his promises of job growth and prosperity.

Daniel Treisman says that the number of indirect links between President-elect Donald Trump and the Russian government are cause for deep concern.

Thanks to a multimillion-dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, faculty, staff researchers, and students affiliated with the UCLA Luskin Institute of Transportation Studies will be part of a new regional transportation center.

When Donald Trump was elected, UCLA Anderson economists revised their prognostications for the nation, state and Los Angeles.

The roots of America’s widespread opioid addiction are multifaceted and extend to the economy, bad medicine and corrupt pharmacists, said UCLA legal scholar and health policy expert Jill Horwitz.

The work of UCLA School of Law’s Supreme Court Clinic will be on full display when the U.S. Supreme Court convenes for oral arguments early next year.