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What we, as citizens, can do to fight genocide
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UCLA faculty voice: Why big business keeps winning at the Supreme Court
Law professor Adam Winkler notes that justices appointed by Republicans and Democrats have tended to side with business interests in cases before the court.
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UCLA faculty voice: How Iceland’s Viking heritage helped salvage its economy
Economist Jerry Nickelsburg on how the Nordic nation overcame a deep financial crisis through improved regulation, higher bank equity requirements, and strict financial stress tests.
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UCLA faculty voice: How California created a road map for America’s interstates
UCLA Daniel J.B. Mitchell Daniel J.B. Mitchell is professor emeritus in UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
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UCLA faculty voice: Airlines should use sealed-bid auctions to deal with overbooking
Professor Christopher Tang proposes a system in which the passenger who submits the lowest bid will be compensated for giving up their seat and assistance making new travel plans.
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UCLA faculty voice: Automation, not free trade, is bigger threat to American jobs
Finance professor Bhagwan Chowdhry says protectionist barriers won’t stop robots from taking U.S. jobs.
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UCLA faculty voice: What can be done about the lone wolf terrorist threat?
Jeffrey Simon writes that the threat can never be completely eliminated but that there are ways law enforcement authorities can use technology to help mitigate it.
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UCLA faculty voice: We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem
Miriam Posner writes about how get-girls-to-code initiatives that aim to fix tech’s gender imbalance may unintentionally help reinforce it.
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UCLA faculty voice: Tolls are the only way to fix L.A.’s traffic
Herbie Huff notes that dynamic tolling, which varies toll prices to sync with demand, is a far cheaper option for easing congestion than adding lanes to freeways.
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UCLA faculty voice: Largest deportation campaign in U.S. history is no match for Trump’s plan
Historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez corrects the revisionist history of Operation Wetback, which in fact eased immigration law enforcement in the U.S.-Mexico border region.
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UCLA faculty voice: How much do we learn in college?
Professor Daniel Oppenheimer co-authored a study saying that universities must do more to track student improvement.
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UCLA faculty voice: Oroville Dam shows urgent need for climate adaptation
Alex Hall and Mark Gold say California’s infrastructure needs to be designed for how the state’s climate will be in the future, which likely means more rain and less snow.
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UCLA faculty voice: People trying to save prefer accounts that are hard to tap
Professor Shlomo Benartzi writes that when it comes to saving money people recognize the benefit of protection from one’s self.
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UCLA faculty voice: It’ll take more than a Band-Aid to fix Medicaid
Dr. Richard Boxer, a visiting professor of urology at UCLA, argues that giving states money to provide high-deductible plans with health savings accounts could save Medicaid.
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UCLA faculty voice: Americans tend to be married to their political party
Lynn Vavreck notes that in 2016 more people care about the party of their future in-law than cared in 1958, and there is more desire for same-party marriage than there was in the 1950s.
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Why Groundhog Day now elevates science over superstition
For UCLA biologist Daniel Blumstein celebrating the lowly marmot could shed light on global warming.
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UCLA faculty voice: The U.S. already tried ‘extreme vetting’ for Muslims. It didn’t work.
Law professor Aslı Bâli explains how a previous effort following 9/11 called National Security Entry-Exit Registration System failed to achieve its goals.
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UCLA faculty voice: Assad has won in Syria, but Syria hardly exists anymore
James Gelvin coauthors an op-ed pointing out that because of wars what remains of Syria is severe unemployment, extreme poverty and public health disasters.
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UCLA faculty voice: California may have to fund climate modeling and renewable energy research
To counter likely cuts in federal funding for research into climate change and energy innovation, California’s government must fill the gap.
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UCLA faculty voice: Obama should not feel obligated to go quietly
History professor and presidential historian Robert Dallek recalls former presidents speaking up to defend their legacies and achievements.
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UCLA faculty voice: What atheists and monks have in common
Sociologist Jeffrey Guhin says that in teaching concepts like morality, religious and secular thinking are more alike than they seem.
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UCLA faculty voice: Low-income children deserve better access to dental care
Jonathan Fielding writes that universal adoption of flouridated water and bolstering the number of dentists accepting Medicaid could help counter the inequality.
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UCLA faculty voice: The fate of Covered California under President Trump
Amidst uncertain changes to federal health care policy, Gerald Kominski explores the future for California’s successful health care exchange and Medi-Cal programs.
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UCLA faculty voice: Trump’s economic plan unlikely to match campaign promises
Economist Lee Ohanian on how the president-elect’s plans to reduce globalization and immigration could undermine his promises of job growth and prosperity.
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UCLA faculty voice: The One-China policy benefits China, Taiwan and the United States
Cindy Fan says that Trump’s phone call with the president of Taiwan could undermine the advantages all parties have derived from the “One China” policy.
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UCLA faculty voice: Putin is Trump’s most dangerous best friend
Daniel Treisman says that the number of indirect links between President-elect Donald Trump and the Russian government are cause for deep concern.
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UCLA faculty voice: Making L.A. water self-sufficient won’t be easy or cheap. But it can be done
Mark Gold says it'll take a combination of capturing stormwater, recycling treated wastewater and restoring groundwater.