Announcing Thinking L.A.—a New Partnership of UCLA and Zócalo Public Square

UCLA and Zócalo Public Square, the Los Angeles-based Ideas Exchange that blends live events and humanities journalism, have launched a two-year partnership that will create a new destination—both on-the-ground and online—for Angelenos to explore the most important issues facing Southern California today. Through events and journalism, Thinking L.A. will explore the global, national, and local issues that affect life in Los Angeles, use first-person stories to analyze larger regional trends, and grapple with the innovations and ideas that have the potential to change our city.

In the seven free public programs …

October 15, 2013

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by Ted B. Kissell | October 15, 2013

Dark wood, padded leather seats with brass nail heads, wrought iron, dim lighting: Everything about the interior of A Restaurant in Newport Beach says old school. The watering hole, formerly …

Will We Fracture the Internet?

Unless We Curb Our Addiction to Surveillance and Secret Hacking, We Might Not Have a Choice

by Sascha Meinrath | October 15, 2013

Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff’s recent indictment of the United States’ cyber-spying practices has profound global repercussions for the U.S. vision of a borderless, open Internet.

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