Before Trump, some states had already ended affirmative action for contractors – here’s what happened

President Donald Trump made headlines early in his second term when he ordered that affirmative action programs be dismantled ...
Mother Jones

The Endless Pursuit of Equality Through College Admissions

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Admissions Granted, a documentary set to premiere on MSNBC on Sunday at 9 pm ET, gets ...
The Atlantic

Affirmative Action at Top Schools: A Purely Upper-Middle Class Problem?

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 ...
Washington Examiner

Government is the affirmative action problem, private action is the solution

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 ...
The New York Times

Critics of Affirmative Action Say This Year’s Admissions Data Are Fishy. They’re Not.

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Opinion: Striking down affirmative action is nowhere close to addressing the real problem

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 ...
Inside Higher Ed

Is Class-Based Affirmative Action a Pipe Dream?

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 ...
The Atlantic

So Much for Class-Based Affirmative Action

When the Supreme Court struck down race-based affirmative action, it included some words of comfort for Americans worried about declining diversity at the nation’s most selective universities. Chief ...
American Enterprise Institute

Trump Is Right About Affirmative Action

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 ...
The Washington Post

Why class-based affirmative action won’t work

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 ...
The New York Times

The Liberal Agenda of the 1960s Has Reached a Fork in the Road

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 ...
The Washington Post

When Reagan tried to undo affirmative action, corporations fought back

President Ronald Reagan had been slowly chipping away at affirmative action since taking office in 1981, but it was six months into his second term that his administration saw its chance to deal it a ...