After the attack in Orlando, I spoke with Jeffrey Simon, a visiting lecturer in the department of political science at UCLA and the author of Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat. During the conversation, we talked about what makes these attacks so hard to prevent, ISIS’s depressingly masterful use of social media, and the types […]
More recently he sparked outrage by insisting he could not receive fair treatment from San Diego federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing the lawsuit against his now-defunct real estate school, because the American-born judge’s parents were Mexican immigrants. Trump later tried to walk back those remarks, but still questioned the judge’s ability to be impartial. “We don’t have […]
DOHA: Promoting labour intensive private industries, especially the employment generating small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and ensuring inclusive growth with social justice system, are some of key initiatives that can address some of the pressing issues facing the Arab world.
For archaeologists and historians interested in the ancient politics, religion and language of the Indian subcontinent, two UCLA professors and their student researchers have creatively pinpointed sites that are likely to yield valuable transcriptions of the proclamations of Ashoka, the Buddhist king of northern India’s Mauryan Dynasty who ruled from 304 B.C. to 232 B.C.
Ms. Rivera previously taught at Cathedral City High School from 2006-2013 and is a resident of Indio. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from UCLA, and a master’s degree in teaching from UC Irvine.
UCLA political science professor Lynn Vavreck and political reporters Sasha Issenberg and Dylan Byers agreed that Trump has used outrageousness to attract media attention.
Getting people to put on one set of glasses rather than another to view their political choices is part of what campaigns do to win elections. The fight to frame the choice is one of the biggest battles. Throughout the primaries, Donald Trump has attempted to make the choice about what we’ve lost: jobs, pride […]
Hillary Clinton’s camp thinks it’s time for voters to step into line and stop criticizing their candidate.
In the past, political scientists and economists have used economic growth models to predict presidential election results. The overall record of this methodology has been fairly good. The book jacket blurb of a 2009 volume by UCLA political scientist Lynn Vavreck epitomized this confidence: “The economy is so powerful in determining the results of U.S. presidential elections,” it proclaimed, […]
No presidential candidate in living memory has attracted the scale and intensity of the satire unleashed on Donald Trump.
