Second, there’s long been confusion about what, exactly, affirmative action is meant to do. In the baseball meme, the crate is there to give everyone equal opportunity. It benefits the short person.

Affirmative action has always been attacked and, although it has persisted, the Supreme Court at each turn has eroded its viability. The court has now done away with it altogether.

The debate over affirmative action and meritocracy intersects with the immigration debate in two ways. First, immigration restrictions are the most destructive form of affirmative action.

Affirmative Action : Throughline This conversation was recorded ahead of the Supreme Court's expected decision on affirmative action. As of publishing, no decision has been issued. The Supreme ...

The first high school seniors to apply to college since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision are trying to sort through a morass of conflicting guidance.

Affirmative action was first used in 1935 in the Wagner Act, a federal law that gave workers the right to start and join unions. John F. Kennedy was the first president to use the term to mean ...

Affirmative action didn’t just give me a chance; it recognized that I, and many like me, were deserving all along. In 1961, affirmative action emerged as a response to racial injustices.

As the end of affirmative action decision reverberates through higher education, colleges and universities — including Ivy League and other elite institutions — are bracing for the impact of ...

Affirmative action is not and has never been a zero-sum game in college admissions I watched from the gallery as the Supreme Court debated the future of race-conscious admissions.

Though the footnote fails to acknowledge it, military academies have been prominent in affirmative action jurisprudence, most notably in the Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling in Grutter vs. Bollinger.

Media Asian American student speaks out on affirmative action: 'Deck is stacked against kids that look like me' 'We can't be racially deciding who gets into college, because I think that people of ...