Between bombshell op-eds and a federal court case on college admissions, race-based affirmative action is back in the pundits' spotlight. Earlier this week, Peter Beinart joined Ross Douthat in ...

It has been over two years since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action in college admissions, a decision that thrust some of the country's most elite colleges and universities into the ...

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Ms. Starr is a law professor at the University of Chicago who studies discrimination and racial disparity. See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los ...

It’s enraging to see my Asian peers celebrating the Supreme Court’s June 29 ruling, which deemed affirmative action as discriminatory. Attending a predominantly Asian high school, I was disheartened ...

African-Americans have been horribly mistreated in America. The nation’s ideals have been right — liberty and equality under the law for all — but with centuries of slavery and Jim Crow, the country ...

When the Supreme Court ruled against racial preferences in college admissions in 2023, most observers didn’t expect the very large preferences that had been in place for 50 years simply to disappear.

Phillip Levine is a professor at Wellesley College and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Sarah Reber is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Can a class-based approach ...

President Donald Trump’s assault on what he broadly calls DEI has been slapdash and sadistic. That doesn’t mean the system under attack should be maintained. Racial preferencing in university ...

Since the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions, a chorus of voices has called for an ambitious—but costly—economic alternative. Some have suggested a class-based alternative to ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los ...

When the Heritage Foundation think tank drew up an expansive presidential transition plan in anticipation of Donald Trump’s return to power, one of its chief policy goals was eliminating affirmative ...