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After reading the book over the summer, new students participated in activities last week aimed at deepening their engagement with it.

Debate watchers at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs try to second-guess how voters will react to the televised showdown.

New website tracks incarceration by neighborhood where the inmate lives and totals how much is spent by community.

There have been many wrongful criminal convictions where the use of faulty forensic science evidence was a major culprit in producing injustice.

Craig Merlic, an associate professor of chemistry at UCLA, has been committed to laboratory safety for three decades. He serves as the executive director of the UC Center for Laboratory Safety.

Law students in the Criminal Defense Clinic at UCLA School of Law worked on a successful clemency petition that will free Darnell Crookshank.

A UCLA political scientist and an American University political historian talked about the key factors in the presidential election Tuesday night before a packed crowd at the Hammer Museum.

On Tuesday Aug. 9 at 7:30 p.m., the Hammer Museum presents two political science experts to assess the likely outcome of November’s vote.

Professor Shana Redmond connects the language and themes of slave narratives with the song Jay-Z released in response to the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

Journalists from across the nation gathered Tuesday night at Capitale in New York for the presentation of the annual awards, presented by the UCLA Anderson School.

Prescription drug monitoring programs and laws aimed at preventing opioid abuse are not doing much to stem this growing threat to public health.

President Obama announced a $70 million award today to a nonprofit co-founded by UCLA to create a nationwide Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute.

The public perception is that lobbyists only fight for lax regulations that allow businesses to pollute more. Green firms lobby too.

Law professor Adam Winkler writes that it’s time for Congress to pass a law that safeguards due process and forbids suspected terrorists from purchasing firearms.

UCLA Anderson Forecast calls for continued slow but steady growth in the two percent range.

UCLA economist Lee Ohanian shares his thoughts about the lasting and far-reaching impact of a 12-year-old study he co-authored that criticized some of FDR’s New Deal policies.

The government’s use of land regulations and zoning laws has acted as a de facto form of segregation that keeps lower-income people from moving into more affluent areas.

A report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research contains key recommendations to overcome the critical gaps in understanding how the law, which takes effect June 9, will work.

Social work professor Mark Kaplan found that an increase in high-risk drinking during the Great Recession may explain the rise in alcohol-related suicides by men — but not women.

While University of California campuses have never asked about an applicant's criminal history as part of the application process, the practice is used by other universities.

Politics and media experts from UCLA and Vanderbilt University are providing a data-backed understanding of commercials’ persuasiveness and effectiveness with a new rating system.

Daniel Pearl’s tragic death was only the first in a wave of violence that has targeted journalists all over the world, said Christiane Amanpour as she delivered the annual lecture given in memory of the Wall Street Journal reporter who was murdered in Pakistan.

Economics professor Lee Ohanian co-writes an op-ed that criticizes Donald Trump’s ideas on international trade because they would lead to less commerce with the rest of the world.

Wong, director of the UCLA Labor Center, recently edited a book with the Rev. James Lawson, a renowned civil rights activist who worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and helped launch key campaigns for social justice.

For California, the forecast calls for a steady decrease in the unemployment rate, to about 5.0 percent by the end of 2018.