Amid a flurry of executive orders starting his second administration, President Donald Trump issued an order entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the “Order” ...

In September of 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new state law banning legacy admissions in higher education. This policy prevents private colleges from considering students’ familial ...

My article Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action has finally been published by the Florida Law Review. In these days of federal attacks on private DEI, ...

Affirmative action is a hot topic for businesses. Since the 2023 US Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard University and University of North Carolina, which held that ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Research shows that 'Black students who are admitted with help from affirmative action are more ...

Faculty members voted to approve a proposal to remove references to affirmative action and other suggestions of race-based preferential treatment from the University’s Non-Discrimination Statement and ...

High school seniors are well into the process of determining where they will attend college in the fall. One thing that will affect many of their options is the 2023 Supreme Court ruling that ended ...

In 2023, after the Supreme Court said universities could no longer use race when considering potential students, Jason Riley watched with interest as proponents of affirmative action spoke in ...

How a 50-year campaign has undermined the progress of the civil rights movement. By Nikole Hannah-Jones Nikole Hannah-Jones is a staff writer at the magazine and the creator of The 1619 Project. She ...

Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. President Donald Trump’s assault on what he broadly calls DEI has been ...