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The high court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases brought by a group led by the same man who previously lost an affirmative action case against the University of Texas at Austin.

The high court’s conservatives all expressed doubts about the practice, while the three liberals defended the programs, which are similar to those used by many private and public universities.

The court has upheld the use of race-conscious admissions in the past, but has moved to the right in the years since.

The future of affirmative action in higher education is on the table as the Supreme Court wades into the admissions programs at the nation’s oldest public and private universities

Harvard and UNC attendees address how applicants’ backgrounds shape their lives as supreme court hears case

Propaganda and psychological warfare helped perpetuate false narratives about the Confederacy that still persist

Sackett v EPA – an attack on the Clean Water Act – is by no means the only threat to climate policy before the court

Whereas the Republican Party once claimed it was "colorblind," now it embraces race-conscious rhetoric. The era of Trump's dog whistle has given way to Tucker Carlson's explicit politics of white grievance.

Let’s start with the easy part. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was wrong to harangue Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing about books allegedly used to teach critical race theory at the Georgetown Day School, where Jackson serves on the board of trustees. It had nothing to…

The Supreme Court has agreed to review a challenge to the consideration of race in college admission decisions, often known as affirmative action