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Immigration expert on the elimination of DACA
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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: Why did the U.S. government detain me, a U.S. citizen, at the border?
Law professor Khaled Abou El Fadl asks what message the government was trying to send when it flagged his passport and held him for 40 minutes without questioning.
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UCLA faculty voice: The curse of abundant resources
Economist Jerry Nickelsburg on how not leveraging the windfall of abundant natural resources into investments into education and infrastructure limits economic growth.
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UCLA faculty voice: L.A. growth should be along Wilshire corridor
Architecture professor Thom Mayne says that adding density around Wilshire Boulevard could accommodate 1 million new people in Los Angeles while promoting sustainability.
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UCLA faculty voice: New parklands and transit won't matter if L.A. doesn't solve water woes
As life-changing as these new projects that voters approved on Nov. 8 might be, one of the region’s most critical infrastructure needs is still being largely ignored: water.
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UCLA faculty voice: Is the Islamic State finished? Five possible scenarios
James Gelvin looks beyond the expected fall of Mosul and explores some possible paths that the Islamic State could take following the loss of the stronghold.
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UCLA faculty voice: Can Google searches predict elections?
Stuart Gabriel notes that the unusual 2016 election cycle reveals the shortcomings of using such an indicator.
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UCLA faculty voice: Campaign ads sample candidate’s own words to great effect
Lynn Vavreck notes that ads using someone’s own words against them register as more memorable and truthful to voters, a strategy Clinton has used several times.
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UCLA faculty voice: We can make medicine affordable
Distinguished professor of public health Jonathan Fielding says commonsense fixes to Medicare and FDA drug approval can lower the cost of lifesaving drugs.
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UCLA faculty voice: The dangerously shaky science behind some forensic evidence
Law school dean Jennifer Mnookin shares findings of a new report that found many forensic techniques do not pass scientific muster.
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UCLA faculty voice: L.A. can’t follow California’s lead on water conservation
Mark Gold criticizes the state’s decision to establish voluntary water conservation targets, and praises the continued drought reduction mandates of Los Angeles.
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UCLA faculty voice: At poor schools, English learners lack the resources to succeed
Education professor Carola Suárez-Orozco pushes for revamping how teachers and administrators are trained to teach English language learners in K-12 schools.
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UCLA faculty voice: Relationship advice from the government doesn’t help low-income couples
Partners not earning much money are likely to struggle because they face challenges outside of their marriage, not communication within their marriage.
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UCLA faculty voice: The death of the glamorous Old West
History professor Stephen Aron examines how more accurate and nuanced depictions of the time period are pushing out the idealized depictions of Wild West films and literature.
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UCLA faculty voice: Opioid addiction is too common for continued inaction
Law professor Jill Horwitz discusses the high rate of opioid addiction, and analyzes the ineffective state laws that have tried to curb the pervasive disease.
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UCLA faculty voice: Balancing free speech with racial justice
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.
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Immigration expert Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda on the elimination of DACA
In this Q&A, he explains how ending DACA would harm economic growth, the role immigrants play in the economy and what should happen next.
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Four threats to American democracy
Jared Diamond is professor of geography and environmental health sciences at UCLA. His best-selling books include "The Third Chimpanzee; Guns, Germs, and Steel," which received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction; "Why Is Sex Fun?"; "Collapse";...
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The science behind ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’
UCLA researchers highlight how the decade-plus since “An Inconvenient Truth ” has seen record-breaking climate changes and extremes.
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What the history of slavery can teach us about slavery today
Brenda Stevenson is a UCLA professor of history and African-American studies, as well as author of "Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South" and the forthcoming book "What is Slavery?" This op-ed appeared Aug. 19 on the...
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UCLA faculty voice: A healthy lifestyle can help prevent dementia
Dr. Jonathan Fielding summarizes a host of recent findings showing how a healthful diet, regular physical activity and proper amounts of sleep affect cognitive health.
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UCLA faculty voice: Here’s why restricting immigration and trade together is so hard
Political scientist Margaret Peters says historically trade barriers meant more open immigration policies, while free trade meant more immigration restrictions.
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The racism that changed my life
D’Artagnan Scorza is the founder and executive director of the Social Justice Learning Institute in Inglewood, Calif. Scorza obtained a Ph.D. in education from UCLA, along with a B.A. in religion. He is currently a 2013-14 BALLE Fellow....
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Dispelling 10 myths about drones
John Villasenor is a professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Ryan Calo is director of privacy and robotics at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society....
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What makes lone-wolf terrorists so dangerous?
Jeffrey Simon is a visiting lecturer of political science at UCLA, an expert on terrorism and political violence, and author of a newly released book, “Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat” (Prometheus, 2013). This...
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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: 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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Is the Internet killing empathy?
Dr. Gary Small, professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, has conducted research on the impact of technology on the human brain. Director of the UCLA Center on Aging, he is one of the world's leading physician/scientists in the fields...
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Q&A: Critical issues facing aging Americans
Three UCLA geriatrics and gerontology faculty members are among those at the forefront of the effort to change the way medicine is delivered to an aging population.
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Ten misconceptions about Buddhism
Robert E. Buswell Jr. (left) holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Humanities at the College of Letters and Science at UCLA. He is also Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies and founding director of the Center for Buddhist Studies....
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UCLA faculty voice: America is no longer gun-shy about gun control
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.
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Can big data transform social justice?
UCLA social psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff says that big data can help to make the world a better place — not be known only as an invasion of privacy.
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Nation's founders balanced gun rights with public safety
Law Professor Adam Winkler is a specialist in American constitutional law whose work has been cited and quoted in landmark Supreme Court cases. His book, "Gun Fight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America" (W.W. Norton,...
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UCLA faculty voice: Celebrating indigenous peoples and how they gained a voice
On International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Ulia Gosart takes stock of how far indigenous people have come on the world stage and how far they have to go.
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Verbatim — AIDS’ beginnings, circling for a parking spot and inheriting anxiety
“I felt very badly for the first patients who were very ill and we were not able to tell them what they had or what to do about it. I became angry later when society at large did not seem to care. At the start it never dawned on me that this was the...
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Using dance to create a movement to end violence against women
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a professor at the UCLA School of Law. She is also the faculty director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at the Columbia Law School. She is the co-founder of the African...
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Parents, chill. Technology isn’t destroying teens’ brains
Psychologist and UCLA researcher Yalda Uhls writes that more important than limiting ‘screen time’ is guiding children and young adults to utilize technology to improve their lives.
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The science behind your kid’s obsession with ‘Frozen’
A UCLA psychologist and her sister explain why Disney struck billion-dollar gold with Elsa, Anna and ‘Let It Go.’