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Artificial intelligence still can’t reason why
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UCLA faculty voice: Are Islamic State recruits more street gang members than zealots?
James Gelvin suggests volunteers are drawn to a value system that asserts aggressive machismo, disparages work, and sustains the impulse for immediate gratification.
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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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UCLA faculty voice: Why building more freeways makes traffic worse
Economist Jerry Nickelsburg advocates long-term planning that accounts for transportation and housing policy, as well as for creating incentives for more mass transit use.
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UCLA faculty voice: No, the laws of Australia don’t override the laws of mathematics
John Villasenor on why the Australian government’s recent push to force technology companies to break into end-to-end encryption is futile.
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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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UCLA faculty voice: How to fix L.A.’s failed parking policies
Ethan Elkind writes that not only have parking policies failed to improve mobility, they’ve made housing less affordable and hurt the environment.
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UCLA faculty voice: A better way to solve the housing crisis
Three urban planning professors note that L.A. has more land, and land value, than development, so a small land tax could raise more money for affordable housing.
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A superpower for our time: How to handle the truth
UCLA political science professor Lynn Vavreck on why gut reactions and preconceived ideas may outweigh objective facts in the post-truth era.
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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.