Why do Republicans think Sotomayor is a mediocre beneficiary of affirmative action? Because they had their own.
By Joe Conason May 29, 2009
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British spy agency is on the hunt for female, minority applicants.
By Lynn Harris
July 23, 2008
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According to the country's High Court, they are now considered "black"
By Andrew Leonard
June 19, 2008
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Worried about the steadily declining number of male students, some colleges and universities appear to be practicing affirmative action for men.
By Sarah Karnasiewicz
February 15, 2006
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His membership in a racist, reactionary group at Princeton reveals the unsavory face of conservatism.
By Joe Conason
January 13, 2006
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An exhaustive article looks at why college women soar, while their male counterparts slack.
By Lori Leibovich
July 10, 2006
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An admissions officer apologizes to all the qualified girls she's had to reject in favor of boys.
By Sarah Karnasiewicz
March 23, 2006
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Quirky millionaire Howard Ahmanson Jr. is on a mission from God to stop gay marriage, fight evolution, defeat "liberal" churches -- and reelect George W. Bush.
By Max Blumenthal
January 6, 2004
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Readers react to articles on Monday's Supreme Court decision and the ever contentious debate over affirmative action.
June 26, 2003
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Top thinkers on race relations say Monday's Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action herald another generation of opportunity and another generation of conflict.
Compiled by Laura McClure and Mark Follman
June 24, 2003
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The Supreme Court did the right thing by upholding affirmative action -- but by pretending that racial preferences don't harm anyone, it showed that America still can't talk straight about race.
By Joan Walsh
June 24, 2003
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Readers respond to "The Forbidden Truth About Jayson Blair," by Eric Boehlert.
May 15, 2003
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Thirteen people remain locked up in Texas on the word of a corrupt cop. In the bucks-for-busts world of drug task forces, that's not an aberration.
By Arianna Huffington
April 9, 2003
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How does a guy whose pedigree opened doors all the way to the White House get away with pretending to believe in meritocracy?
By Robert Scheer
January 23, 2003
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Black, Latino and Native American student numbers plunged when affirmative action ended. Now U.C. says they're back up -- but a close look at enrollment tells a more complex story.
By Pamela Burdman
June 24, 2002
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The most pernicious thing about racial preferences is the culture of concealment that they spawn.
By Cathy Young
May 3, 2001
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A doctor argues that affirmative action and ignoramus patients organizations are ruining American healthcare.
By Ivan Oransky
February 12, 2001
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By Philip A. Klinkner
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July 21, 2000
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Enough is enough! Lazaro's a strutting bullyboy, Marisleysis is a
hysterical narcissist; Ralph Nader may get my vote; and Phyllis Diller vs.
Gloria Steinem.
By Camille Paglia
April 26, 2000
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The man who has made it a personal mission to destroy affirmative action one state at a time explains why the policy is so damaging.
By Alicia Montgomery
March 27, 2000
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It took a broken heart to teach me that guilty white liberals aren't the solution to America's racial strife, but part of the problem.
By Joan Walsh
February 17, 2000
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The Florida governor's kindler, gentler affirmative action reform draws a firestorm of protest from the very people it aims to help.
By Max J. Castro
February 10, 2000
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The University of Virginia acknowledges it tracks applicants based on their parents' donor potential.
By Alisa Roth
January 14, 2000
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Pat Choate, the man behind the strategy to craft a left-right-center coalition with Pat Buchanan out front, reveals the plan to seize the White House next year.
By Fred Branfman and David Weir
November 11, 1999
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Thomas Sowell talks about the arrogance of liberal elites and the loneliness of the black conservative.
By Ray Sawhill
November 10, 1999
Sonia Sotomayor is not Clarence Thomas
"Honeypots" need not apply
What color are Chinese South Africans?
The campus crusade for guys
Alito's ugly association
Avenging angel of the religious right
Right ruling, wrong reasons
Diversity drama at the University of California
Secrets and lies
"PC, M.D." by Sally Satel
Joan Walsh
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald