Nation, World + Society

A year before Robinson first put on a Brooklyn Dodger uniform and walked onto a ball field and into history, two other Bruins, who happened to once be his teammates on the UCLA football team, became the first African Americans to play in the NFL in 13 years.

Luskin Dean Franklin Gilliam says citing statistics about racial disparities can be persuasive for reform advocates, contrasting a recent Stanford study that said the statistics were an ineffective persuasive tool.

Urban planning professor Donald Shoup says that property owners should be required to fix their broken sidewalks when they sell their property.

The goals of the Bank of England's financial policy committee are to maintain financial stability and support the government's objectives for growth and employment. So why do we need a committee to oversee financial stability?

To speed up the opening of new transportation projects, California should streamline its environmental review and approval process, writes law professor Ethan Elkind.

Researchers from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs based their analysis on key factors, including what portion of renters’ income regularly goes to pay rent.

UCLA political scientist finds that municipalities appear to be more responsive to voters than is often supposed.

UCLA public policy alumna Snejana Daily spent a year traveling the world to tell the stories of people facing challenges across the globe in a 10-part series currently airing on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Her commitment to nonprofit work was strengthened after she suffered the loss of her husband in Iraq.

M.B.A. students took on the challenge to craft a business plan that cuts costs and increases training productivity.

Accepting students eligible for federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program could help address the nation's shortage of primary care physicians, UCLA researchers say.

Launched in 2006, VIP Scholars aims to increase the number of underserved students that are competitively eligible for places like UCLA and other selective universities.

Parks Forward — a state-appointed blue-ribbon commission with deep talent, knowledge and connections — issued detailed draft recommendations last week for sweeping changes to ensure the long-term sustainability of California's State Parks.

A study co-authored by a UCLA public policy professor found some positive effects in Rhode Island after the state accidentally made prostitution legal for seven years.

UCLA geographer Judith Carney is part of an international team of interdisciplinary researchers who have sequenced the complete genome of African rice (Oryza glaberrima). The findings were reported online Sunday in the scholarly journal Nature Genetics.

Law professor Jill Horwitz co-authors an op-ed criticizing the D.C. circuit court for acting a tool in the relentless search for legal flaws to tear down the landmark health care law.

Law students shoulder a heavy responsibility as they work for months to prepare a man from Africa for his one chance at being granted asylum.

The outlook is based on the recent Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast Commercial Real Estate Survey, which analyzes the three-year outlook for real estate development activity in California.

Russia's president took a big risk when he annexed Crimea and backed Ukraine separatists, writes Daniel Treisman, UCLA political science professor.

A new UCLA-led study suggests that a higher quality educational environment may help reduce health disparities and improve health outcomes.

Law professor Jennifer Mnookin writes that because of camera angles, close-ups and other filming techniques, videotaped confessions can be misleading.

Similarly to countries like Denmark and Sweden, American cities and towns have been spending more on programs for the poor and the middle class, funded by higher taxes on these groups.

The 'Needs Portal' enables caseworkers to find out in real time which community agencies are available to help families with urgent needs.

UCLA arts lecturer Tom Skelly spent 30 years working with inmates in the state prison in Chino. "I would do it again," he says.

In a Q&A with the Los Angeles Times, Villasenor explains how cryptocurrencies work, why they're unregulated and how they're valued.

UCLA School of Law professor Adam Winkler says Justice Breyer’s opinion in the recess appointments case deals a blow to constitutional originalism.