Nation, World + Society

UCLA’s Luskin Center for History and Policy welcomed community leaders to discuss Proposition 10 as part of the ongoing “Why History Matters” series.

Jon Christensen and Alessandro Rigolon offer three ideas to help ensure community improvements don’t displace the people living there.

Although the study analyzed information dating back to the mid-19th century, the findings could have important implications for human health today.

Data from 2014–17 shows that 25 percent of those arrested were elementary- or middle school-aged and there was a disparity in police interactions for black students.

UCLA’s James Stigler is working to improve math and science education nationally by eliminating the rote memorization methods and studying what really works.

Political science professor Lynn Vavreck and her coauthors debunk some of the conventional wisdom about how Donald Trump won the Oval Office.

The Noah Erenberg Endowment Fund will support faculty efforts to help K–12 teachers improve education for children with learning differences.

Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, gives $5.5 million to support Documenting Global Voices.

The event in Bruin Plaza on Oct. 9 is sponsored by the American Indian Studies Center and will feature singing, refreshments and a screening of Native short films in Kaplan Hall.

Pamela Hieronymi served as a consultant to Michael Schur, creator of the hit NBC sitcom, sharing insights into moral and ethical belief systems.

Ali Behdad hopes to lead the center to think about the Middle East in a global context, one that takes into account the region and its many diasporas.

California law could be amended to allow Los Angeles to extend rent protections to units that are not currently rent-controlled, including properties built since 1979.

During a talk with law school dean Jennifer Mnookin, Kagan, who is the 10th Supreme Court justice to come to the school, shared wisdom from her distinguished career.

California’s economy is expected to continue to grow faster than the U.S. economy, but the report indicates that growth at the state and national levels will be weaker in 2020.

Dr. Michael Rodriguez is founding chair of the group that focuses its energies on research, policy and advocacy work, sharing knowledge and promoting policies that encourage political, economic and social equality.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco say more must be done to help these children integrate into U.S. and European societies.

Counties such as San Bernardino, Riverside and Fresno could see public health care take a bigger bite of their budgets, the study reports.

The analysis shows that legal status plays a significant role in a person’s ability to access services.

Researchers who are part of the multi-university Collaborative Multiethnic Post-Election Survey met on campus to prepare for the 2020 elections.

Conference held on campus focused on re-framing immigration and migration through the perspectives of the people who are moving and also creating tools for educators.

They can be forced to move far from their social and medical networks to find rentals they can afford; they may end up in substandard housing; or — at worst — homeless, the paper’s authors say.

Walter Thompson-Hernández applies lessons from being a lifelong Bruin to his help make sure his multimedia stories illuminate subcultures and don’t exploit them.

Arcadia Fund grant will help open access to rare manuscripts from St. Catherine’s Monastery.

Three days of workshops at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs teach officials from around the United States. how to support their constituencies

Environmental law experts Ann Carlson and Cara Horowitz review the long record of benefits achieved by the state’s aggressive anti-pollution rules.