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Overturning Roe v. Wade and affirmative action in higher education had been leading goals of the conservative legal movement for decades

"You know, many presidents never get the opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court justice. I had three," he says

Top Trump officials are citing expense as one reason for the slowed pace.

Edward Blum’s group used Asian Americans for display to serve a longstanding anti-affirmative action agenda

"Rhetoric spewed at this conference by its host and invited guests has real-world consequences," GLAAD CEO warns

Joe Biden’s team focuses on voters’ dim perception of president’s handling of economy despite signs of positive performance

In the months following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, progressive cities and states across the country raced to establish themselves as “havens” or “sanctuaries” for people seeking abortion care. Twelve states, including Maryland, and Washington, D.C., have since passed laws to make abortion more accessible by strengthening legal protections,…

The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina’s use of race in admissions decisions violates the 14th Amendment came as no surprise. Not to us, and not to most anyone who works in or around colleges and universities, which long have known…

Susanna Gibson remembers where she was and what she was doing on June 24, 2022, the way some remember 9/11 or the Challenger explosion. The nurse practitioner was sitting at her kitchen table in Henrico, Va., going over some patient charts, when her phone buzzed. It was one of her…