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UCLA research report shows the candidate’s voters live in communities less affected by immigration from Mexico and trade with China.

As part of the UCLA history department’s “Why History Matters” series, the panelists discussed demagogues, the media and gender dynamics in the contest between Clinton and Trump.

UCLA Anderson Forecast’s quarterly outlook for the national economy foresees real gross domestic product growth in the 2 percent to 2.5 percent range throughout 2017 and 2018, where it has been for the past seven years.

Debate watchers at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs try to second-guess how voters will react to the televised showdown.

Laurie Hart taught seminars over the summer at the University of the Aegean in Lesvos, Greece, where thousands of refugees who fled from Syria and other countries are encamped.

A UCLA political scientist and an American University political historian talked about the key factors in the presidential election Tuesday night before a packed crowd at the Hammer Museum.

David Shulman outlines why he will reluctantly vote for a Democrat in November, how Donald Trump betrays American values and what Republicans need to do to regain their party.

The UCLA Anderson School of Management professor knows he won't be elected but hopes to wake Americans up to key economic issues.

Sixty-eight students studying in Europe this summer got the opportunity of a lifetime to see immediate reaction to the vote to leave the European Union.

The public perception is that lobbyists only fight for lax regulations that allow businesses to pollute more. Green firms lobby too.

Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board and a UCLA faculty member, is a fierce fighter for the environment. She has championed a difficult cause without succumbing to bitterness or wallowing in the polarization that has crippled Sacramento and Washington.

California Governor Jerry Brown has been fighting for the environment for decades. He reflects on that history.

A memorial will be held on Wednesday, June 8 at the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute.

Donald Trump is a man who maximizes his celebrity, keeping the focus on him during the presidential primary season, journalists explain at a UCLA lecture.

Five UCLA experts from across the campus recently assembled a big-picture view of the political turmoil, economic crisis and investigation into widespread corruption that are shaking Brazil to its core.  

Politics and media experts from UCLA and Vanderbilt University are providing a data-backed understanding of commercials’ persuasiveness and effectiveness with a new rating system.

Economics professor Lee Ohanian co-writes an op-ed that criticizes Donald Trump’s ideas on international trade because they would lead to less commerce with the rest of the world.

Professor Daniel J.B. Mitchell writes about how Upton Sinclair’s failed 1934 bid for California governor still left a lasting mark on politics.

Laurence D. Fink, chairman, CEO of BlackRock, Inc. and the newest recipient of the UCLA Medal, talked about how China will have to transform its society to keep its economy moving forward.

Former U.S. Congressman and current UC Regents Professor Henry Waxman talked about how Congress has evolved

Law professor Adam Winkler writes that even if Congress hasn’t really tightened federal firearm laws, the NRA has lost its chokehold on the debate.

University of California President Janet Napolitano writes that to help ensure America’s future, scientists must serve as ambassadors to the public.

Political science professor Chris Tausanovitch argues that polarization in American society actually has not deviated much since the 1950s.

When UCLA history professor J. Arch Getty presents “Dead Man Talking: Lenin's Body and Russian Politics,” the UCLA Academic Senate’s 119th Faculty Research Lecture on Oct. 19, he will be speaking from a deep well of scholarship in Russian history.

Anthropologist Susan Perry has observed extraordinarily sophisticated political strategies in capuchin monkey behavior that mirror the social machinations so common in human workplaces.