Ward Connerly

  • A difficult, divisive issue

    Top thinkers on race relations say Monday's Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action herald another generation of opportunity and another generation of conflict.
  • The new racial profilers

    Ward Connerly's new crusade would get the government out of the business of tracking everybody's racial identity. But liberals still don't get it.
  • Diversity drama at the University of California

    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.
  • A colorblind California?

    With one in seven California kids born to parents of different races, Ward Connerly says it's time to stop collecting outmoded racial data. But even some old allies say Connerly's is an idea whose time has not yet come.
  • Now what?

    Salon panelists look ahead to the Bush years
  • Now what?

    Roger Ebert, David Horowitz, Andrew Sullivan, Noam Chomsky, Bianca Jagger and other Salon panelists panelists look ahead to the Bush years.
  • A "poison" divides us

    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.
  • What went wrong?

    The Florida governor's kindler, gentler affirmative action reform draws a firestorm of protest from the very people it aims to help.
  • What's at stake in the 2000 elections?

    Rosa Parks, David Duke, Steve Wozniak, Camille Paglia, Al Franken -- and dozens more -- talk about what inspires and frightens them about the political year ahead.
  • Fascism by any other name

    When conservatives try to meet at Columbia, ideologues shout them down, with the backing of the administration.
  • "Black people must be stupid"

    A black writer takes issue with David Horowitz's criticism of African-American bloc-voting in the last election.
  • Reply to C.D. Ellison

    It's time for blacks to have a two-party system too.
  • Beware of the black CON-servative

    An African-American Republican talks back to David Horowitz.
  • As American as ethnic studies

    A suggested merger between two departments at UC-Berkeley has partisans on both sides marking their territory.
  • 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.

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