In a sense, affirmative action treats "majority" groups unfairly because the policy provides preferential treatment to minorities and other historically under-represented classes.

For more than 40 years, the debate over affirmative action in admissions has focused on whether it amounts to unfair and unconstitutional reverse discrimination against whites (and now Asians).

Even before the Supreme Court struck it down, affirmative action was a highly divisive practice ...

An unintended consequence of affirmative action — a policy meant to boost diversity — is that it can be wielded like a weapon to make people of color feel like they don’t belong. The Times ...

Twenty-four years ago, California was consumed by debate over affirmative action.A charismatic Black businessman named Ward Connerly led support for Proposition 209, a ballot initiative to ban ...

Re “Justices Rule Against Affirmative Action” (front page, June 30): While I share the outrage directed at the Supreme Court’s striking down affirmative action, as the founder and director ...

One of the cons is that affirmative action policies aren’t being developed to remedy structural racism. They’ve been set up to increase representation. That’s not unimportant, ...

Affirmative action should target poverty, ... Davis has implemented a scoring system seeking to measure disadvantages for applications to medical school that are not explicitly race-based.

Reflecting on the current era. W hen asked what makes this moment in U.S. history the right or wrong time to end affirmative action, Feingold pointed to the changes that occurred on the Supreme Court ...

One of the disadvantages of affirmative action in the workplace is that it can create a stigma that women and minorities at your company were only hired because of their gender or skin color.

It has been over a year since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action in college admissions, a decision that thrust some of the country's most elite colleges and universities into the ...