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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.

Law professor Adam Winkler says that minority groups could be at risk of losing legal protections after the Supreme Court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case.

Adam Winkler says Justice Kennedy's swing vote status on gun control may be why the Court was reluctant to hear Second Amendment cases.

President Obama met for a few minutes at LAX with students in a UCLA seminar taught by actor and former White House aide Kal Penn. The class: "Hope, Change, and Fist Bumps: Young Americans and The Obama Presidency."

In its first quarterly report of 2014, the Forecast asserts that the weather that ravaged much of the country caused slower-than-expected national growth. However, the economy should rebound in the spring.

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.

The former secretary of state offered her observations about the turmoil in Ukraine and offered advice to UCLA students about how they could help reinvent the U.S. economy for the 21st century.

When it comes to influential positions in the industry, minorities and women are represented at rates far below what would be expected given their percentage of the general population, according to a new UCLA study.

Rep. Raul Ruiz, a 1994 graduate, was dubbed by Politico as a freshman lawmaker most likely to succeed. The 41-year-old California Democrat from the Coachella Valley is a member of No Labels, a group of almost 100 Republicans and Democrats dedicated to ending partisan gridlock.

UCLA psychology professor and director of the university’s Center for Policing Equity to lead project that was initiated by police chiefs.

UCLA has the second-largest moving image archive in the United States after the Library of Congress, and the world’s largest university-based media archive.

As Congress and the Obama administration try to reach agreement on a spending plan for 2014, University of California leaders are urging that the repeal of sequestration be a top budget priority.

Carol Burnett, who discovered her love for acting and knack for comedy as an undergraduate at UCLA, got the best laughs as well as the highest honor Sunday at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

In a step toward justice, commencement came for Japanese American former students who had been forced to leave UCLA and enter internment camps during World War II.