Researchers including USC’s Brian Rathbun say populist beliefs don’t depend on how you’re doing financially. Instead, they say, it depends on how you think broader social groups are doing — in short, whether the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

The artist and professor, whose reputation as a conceptual artist has gained over the last decade, began making images out of compressed lint in 1999. The lint works as a ephemeral reminder of the never-ending rhythms of women’s domestic labor.

USC’s Angus Deaton and a colleague write that the obvious solutions — improving Medicaid, focusing on the crisis and concentrating on rural areas — won't solve the problem. The long-run solution, they say: higher wages and better jobs for working people.

Mexico-based James hd Brown is famous around the world, but he’s a virtual unknown in Los Angeles, his birthplace.

American music students traditionally have few chances for global study, but USC’s music school wants to change that.

Benita Walton-Moss teaches a health assessment course that covers signs of abuse.

Vocal screening clinics are part of a health and wellness push that’s catching on at top-tier music schools like USC Thornton.

Arthur Toga joins other researchers on the five-year study backed by a $12 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.