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 ...

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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 ...

Any employers that want to have an affirmative action plan are "going to have to be very careful," said Clark Hill member Vanessa Kelly. Employers with programs to boost hiring of women, people of ...

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 ...

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 ...

When colleges began announcing the makeup of their incoming freshman classes last year—the first admissions cycle since the Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action—there seemed to have been some ...

Samantha Greene, a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said she quickly noticed a difference in the student body when she stepped on campus in August. As president of the Black ...

The demise of the old version of affirmative action is likely to affect some of its previous beneficiaries much more than others. By David Leonhardt Two economists — Ran Abramitzky of Stanford and ...

There are areas where there may be a relationship between state and federal affirmative action requirements. While there may be a relationship between state and federal affirmative action requirements ...