The Latest Breaking News from Affirmative Action

Voters decided 10 affirmative action-related ballot measures since 1996, opposing the practice eight times, & supporting it twice.

Ever since U.S. President Lyndon Johnson enacted affirmative action in 1965, white conservatives have challenged the use of race in college admissions.

If the Supreme Court’s recent decision has the effect of focusing on the broken pipeline of K-12 education, it will have done far more for disadvantaged students than any racial preference program

The Supreme Court just took away a major grievance supply for white Americans who believe they're victims of racism

Olivia Brandeis had a vision for her college application essay: She would write about covering a racist incident as a student journalist of color at Monte Vista High School in Danville, California, a majority-white city east of Oakland. But last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down race-based affirmative action…

Thursday, after the U.S. Supreme Court knocked down affirmative action in higher education admissions in a case against Harvard University, President Joe Biden took aim at the old boys network of giving a boost to the kids of alumni, saying “Today, I’m directing the Department of Education to analyze what…

OK, she said it in 2006 as a dean, not a Justice, and about women and law review membership at Harvard, not SFFA and minority admissions, but I would be interested in knowing why she has expressed this concern about women, but not URMs. Relatedly, my former colleague (now DC…

Fifteen years ago, I watched in rapt attention as a resplendent, yet surreal, scene unfolded: the election of the first-ever African-American US president, Barack Obama. In the past week, the Supreme Court of the United States, in a landmark 6-3 ruling, struck down what may have been one of the…

In the SFFA affirmative action case, Chief Justice Roberts for the majority, Justice Thomas, concurring, and especially Justice Gorsuch, concurring, argued that in addition to other legal defects in the defendants' affirmative action programs, the classifications used they used for "diversity" purposes were not properly tailored to serve the schools'…

Achieving this goal will require a lot more than banning racial preferences in college admissions. That includes some measures that will make the political right uncomfortable, as well as the left.

A Harvard graduate on the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the program that completely changed her life.