Nation, World + Society

Law professor Cheryl Harris writes that as constitutional standards evolve, the assumption that a neutral rule permitting racist and anti-racist speech is fair could not be further from the truth.

UCLA Anderson professor Shlomo Benartzi writes in the Wall Street Journal that seeing frequent updates in the palm of your hand can lead to overreacting to short-term losses.

UCLA professor Teresa McCarty has done extensive work with Native-American communities on language education policy and youth language and literacy learning.

The study by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law shows that state and local sales taxes increase by an estimated $52 million.

For the last 18 years, UCLA’s Lisa Snyder has been bringing to life the bygone glory of a true architectural, social and cultural wonder — the Chicago World’s Fair.

UCLA's John Rogers has devoted his research and writing to identifying inequalities in education and community-organizing for school reform.

Professor Christopher Tang evaluates the challenges Uber faces in China and how the ride-sharing company matches up to its biggest Chinese competitor.

Why are working people falling behind? A leading UCLA researcher examines the causes of widening inequality.

With an impressive string of cited amicus briefs and appellate litigation appearances, UCLA Law faculty members are making an impact on important issues.

Former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Homeboy Industries’ Father Greg Boyle are among those who take part in the discussion.

Law professor Mary Nichols chronicles the 20-year saga to remove the veil of smog over Los Angeles.

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

Waugh, an authority on American history and lifelong baseball fan, explains how baseball has (and hasn’t) changed, why it became the national pastime and how she teaches the sport’s history.

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.

The researchers suggest that universities could encourage more risk-taking in research by decoupling job security from productivity.

The model, developed from six years of mathematical research and a decade of police crime data, has been so successful that the LAPD adopted it for use in 14 of its 21 divisions.

Researchers found that people envision an unknown “black”-named character in similar ways to an unknown “white”-named male convicted of assault.

Law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw writes in the Washington Post about how intersectionality brings to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members, but often fail to represent them.

A new global health minor explores the institutional, economic, logistic, legal and social challenges of global health, using a multidisciplinary lens to consider health in a global context.

UCLA Anderson Forecast’s third quarterly report of 2015 predicts a strong outlook for the next two years, with a slim chance of a recession and a slight change for a surge in growth.

Scholars will cut across traditional boundaries to study migration in a world increasingly defined by the global movement of people.

Two UCLA Anderson professors write in an op-ed that despite rhetoric on Capital Hill, the Trans-Pacific Partnership will not curb China’s influence in the global marketplace.

Christine Borgman studies how research information is retrieved, processed, curated and conveyed. So she's in the right place at the right time.

A trio of UCLA experts on the economy write in an op-ed that with business-friendly policies the U.S. economy can exceed the dismal projections of the most recent forecast by the Congressional Budget Office.

The UCLA Parent Project by Center X helps parents understand what’s going on in the classroom and how best to support new learning strategies to help their children succeed.