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Feelings seem raw at the court, certainly for the court's three liberal justices, who were on the losing end of some of the court's biggest cases this term, but also for the conservatives.

In America, the supreme court has struck down affirmative action; the French have been rocked by riots. Why can’t we solve racial inequality?

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

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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…

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

Justice Sotomayor decides who is a person of color based on whether it supports her views regarding structural racism.