I thought of Piper last week when The New York Times revealed that Zohran Mamdani, the surprise winner of New York City’s ...

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 ...

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, ...

First introduced in 1961 through President John F. Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925, affirmative action was established to create equal employment and educational opportunities for American ...

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 ...

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.

The letter argued that affirmative action was still important to help underprivileged students catch up to more well-off students who might not suffer from the same social disadvantages. Since ...

The Trump administration has launched an investigation into the Minnesota Department of Human Services over its newly updated ...

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 ...

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 ...