With pending federal lawsuits and a new conservative majority on the United States Supreme Court, the future of affirmative action in college admissions is as tenuous now as any time since 1978.

President Donald Trump announced that all federal DEI employees would be placed on paid leave Wednesday. The sweeping executive order rolls back legislation dating back to the 1960s. It's part of the ...

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Once affirmative action for upper-income minority students became unavailable, several highly selective universities ...

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The demise of the old version of affirmative action is likely to affect some of its previous beneficiaries much more than others. By David Leonhardt Two economists — Ran Abramitzky of Stanford and ...

As the Supreme Court prepare to reopen the issue of affirmative action, we can expect another fierce debate about whether college admissions should be color blind. But that debate itself is blind.