The union vote
Union endorsements have long been coveted. Now a new UCLA study shows that U.S. unionization levels rose substantially this year, buoyed by a rising tide in California in general and Southern California in particular, in defiance of a decades-long trend of decline. <more>

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Who will win the presidency?
With history as her guide, UCLA political science professor Lynn Vavreck answers the million-dollar question.
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Election blog
UCLA professors blog the final leg of the 2008 race for president in The Sprint.

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The truth about media bias
There’s nothing like a presidential campaign – particularly one with as many historic twists as the 2008 election – to raise cries of bias in the media:

Two Bruin political scientists evaluate the media impact on Campaign ’08.
A surprising 2005 UCLA study into who’s right and who’s left in the media […]

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Left or right: all in your head?
Is it true that people with different politics just don’t disagree, they actually have different brains? A UCLA study tests that hypothesis, using neurological scans to see whether liberals and conservatives actually do think differently from each other. <more>

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Pouria Abbassi ’89, general manager of the Los Angeles Convention Center, dreams of enormous eco-friendly buildings in a vibrant urban environment. Can his ideas transform the city of the future? <more>

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New Orleans after Katrina. The economic decline of Buffalo, NY. UCLA’s Nicholas Entrikin studies how external factors can force us to re-imagine cities – and what that reveals about the importance of “place.” <more>

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It may be the greatest urban planning challenge in the U.S., but when New Orleans needed a recovery czar after Hurricane Katrina, it turned to a Bruin – Edward J. Blakely, Ed.D. ’71. <more>

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Edward Telles, Ph.D., got excited by puzzles contained in demographic data and realized that the solutions could have social and political significance. Poring over reams of government data, he challenged the prevailing theory that racial mixing cures many ills. Many credit his research with successfully debunking the myth of Brazil as a “racial […]

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U.S. Representative Diane Watson on three things that make California uniquely competitive in the global economy - and the part UCLA must play to keep it that way. <more> (PDF)

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Without a sustainable supply of clean drinking water, the future of drought-prone California’s economy is at risk. What’s UCLA doing about it? <more>

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