Affirmative Action

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  • The test that took over

    Nicholas Lemann flunks the SAT-worshipping American meritocracy.
  • Bill Bradley: The next black president?

    His campaign purports to make race a central issue, but so far it's more style than substance.
  • Capitol Hill's odd couple

    Guess what happens when a white conservative and a black liberal join forces?
  • The GOP goes "liberal"

    J.C. Watts? Jennifer Dunn? Politicians with such multiple defects ordinarily would be handed House leadership only after Saddam Hussein and O.J. Simpson had turned the job down.
  • Black like (white) me

    "A Hope in the Unseen" tells the story of an inner-city black kid at Brown -- through the eyes of a white author who tries to channel him.
  • Strait-laced sisters

    Liberal journalist Elinor Burkett met the enemy -- conservative women -- and found that they were, well, a lot like her.
  • choke your coach, become a cause

    But the Latrell Sprewell Affair, which proves that whites can tell blacks apart nowadays, may mark the end of an era.
  • Newsreal: It's class, stupid

    It still doesn't occur to many that affirmative action might be unfair to poor whites, or that minority kids drop out of college not because of their color but because they are poor. It should be class, not race, that matters in the post-affirmative action era.
  • Newsreal: Ended, not mended

    By upholding California's Proposition 209, the Supreme Court effectively defeated the Clinton administration's top civil rights nominee -- and drove a huge nail into the president's "mend, don't end" affirmative-action policies.
  • Newsreal: Are we all in the money ...

    As part of Salon's Money week, an interview with Andrew Hacker, author of 'Money: Who Has How Much and Why.'
  • an academic lynching

    Why a veteran professor of law is being strung up for saying the obvious
  • When "civil rights" means
    civil wrongs

    The real carriers of the civil rights banner
    are those who are helping end affirmative action.
  • SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal

    The Swiss didn't just hang on to Holocaust victims' bank accounts. They used them to bankroll Hitler's war machine.
  • SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal

    A new documentary explores conflict and cooperation between blacks and Jews.
  • Alternative to
    affirmative action?

    Study.
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