USC Dornsife News

Their lives were thrown into chaos when they decided to travel to England to establish trade relations – but got sold into slavery along the way.

Create a moral panic. Blame it on certain people. Commence monitoring. Deploy droves of security agents. Detain or remove the targets. Sound familiar?

Descendants of survivors helped researchers identify 279 deportees and tell their stories, giving victims a voice, writes Wolf Gruner of USC Dornsife’s Center for Advance Genocide Research.

The climate policy pendulum is swinging back again with Trump in office. Money, lobbying and talking about red vs. blue states all play a role in the political and public divide.

Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump are taking credit for the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. It is expected to take effect one day before Biden leaves office.

The Los Angeles fires may be the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. A USC expert on safety, risk reduction and complex systems calls for a blue-ribbon commission to analyze their causes.

After a decade as prime minister, Justin Trudeau has succumbed to unpopularity at home, infighting in his party – and questions over his response to the incoming US administration.

The US government locked up nearly 126,000 Japanese Americans from 1942 to 1945, but never kept comprehensive records of all the people subjected to this unjustified incarceration.

Historians may not know much about Silvester’s life, but the era he lived in was pivotal for Christianity.