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Affirmative Action
December 10, 2015
Brian Beutler
This isn’t close to the best example of Antonin Scalia’s bigotry.
December 9, 2015
David H. Gans
Will Affirmative Action Live to Fight Another Day?
At the Supreme Court, at least one justice appeared keen to send a big case about race-based admissions back down to the lower courts.
April 25, 2014
Alice Robb
How Two Inoffensive Words Became the Most Inflammatory Phrase in English
The affirmative action story
April 22, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Roberts Court: States Can Ban Affirmative Action

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