USC Dornsife News

Luis Almagro shares his vision for “more rights for more people” in the Americas during a visit to the USC Dornsife School of International Relations.

The latest USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll offers great news for U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and good news for California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, but potential dread for the state’s GOP.

Scholars say elites are critical to helping ethnic communities thrive. So, who are the Latino elites and what work are they doing for their community? Jody Agius Vallejo explains.

Leading conservative pundit and former head of the National Rifle Association David Keene talks about gun control and the nation’s increasingly partisan political landscape. He is joined by USC Dornsife’s Robert Shrum at an event hosted by the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics.

As featured speaker of the annual Carmen and Louis Warschaw Distinguished Lecture, constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe shares how his Jewish roots influenced his career and worldview.

In a series of tweets last week, President Trump proposed a ban on transgender people in the U.S. military. In "The Conversation," Tom Sapsford visits the classics to tell the fable of the cinaedus – a figure familiar to the Greeks and Romans who played a decisive role in combat, but whose gender identity raised concerns.

Marco Milani and a colleague examine how well South Korea's recently elected president Moon Jae-in is tackling the North Korean nuclear question in "The Conversation."

Pres. Trump recently appointed evangelical Christian leader Jerry Falwell Jr. to head the White House education reform task force. Richard Flory looks back at the legacy of Falwell's father, an influential figure in American politics, to understand his son’s appointment.

In The Conversation, Jeffrey Fields, who once held top secret clearance, explains how levels of classification work and where handling sensitive information gets tricky.