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The California Freedom Summer united University of California campuses, community colleges and community groups to register or pre-register more than 5,000 new voters.

Patricia Turner discusses her new book, “Trash Talk: Anti-Obama Lore and Race in the Twenty-First Century”

Tejas Parasher, a comparative political theorist who joined the faculty this fall, teaches students how to question established paradigms.

Scholars agree that, even with ample evidence, prosecution could be extremely challenging at best.

Lynn Vavreck and Chris Tausanovitch discuss their new book, “The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy.”

Liberals and conservatives can have positive experiences when they talk politics over the video conferencing platform, a UCLA study shows.

Support for Democrats remains strong among Latinos, but swing voters could prove the difference in some contests, UCLA report shows.

California and Los Angeles will play a critical role in ensuring reproductive rights, panelists said.

Two national surveys that spanned demographic groups showed opposition to complete abortion bans.

The Berggruen Governance Index, published by UCLA, assesses quality of democracy and quality of life measures in 134 nations.

The expert on Russia’s current project focuses on understanding how today’s threats to democracies emerged.

In a discussion moderated by UCLA’s Jim Newton, the two leaders express differing perspectives on a range of California issues.

Scores declined in each of the nine categories covered by the annual report.

The new UC-funded Mark Q. Sawyer Summer Institute will bring young Howard scholars to UCLA for an immersive six-week research experience.

Panelists weighed in on the prospects for U.S. Rep. Karen Bass, City Councilman Kevin de León and the other candidates.

The words of Nigerian religious leaders can have a positive impact on reintegration and reconciliation, a study by UCLA researchers and colleagues shows.

The research effort brought together more than 200 scholars from nearly 100 colleges and universities.

The study confirms observers’ fears that the enumeration faced insurmountable barriers to an accurate count.

A new UCLA study explores the relationship between innate dispositions toward threats, the social environment and responses to COVID-19.

The Hammer Channel online video platform features more than 1,000 conversations, talks, performances and more.

A new UCLA report shows that voting on 2020 statewide ballot measures varied significantly across racial groups and regions.

UCLA sociologist Cecilia Menjívar explains that today’s plagued system began taking shape well before the Trump administration.

“We need to be honest about what’s going on,” Tapper said as he delivered UCLA’s annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture.

Gamble is one of at least six with UCLA ties to join the administration of President Joe Biden.

Report by UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative dispels notion of a broad Latino swing toward President Trump.