Welcome to Up for Debate. Each week, Conor Friedersdorf rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies.

When the U.S. Supreme Court last June ended affirmative action in college admissions as it had long been practiced, one rhetorical battle in the briefs and opinions involved the lessons to be learned ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Michael Gerhardt is the Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of North Carolina School of Law. He is the author of several books, including “The Power ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In his new book "The Affirmative Action Myth," Jason Riley, a Wall Street Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute scholar, ...

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President Donald Trump’s assault on what he broadly calls DEI has been slapdash and sadistic. That doesn’t mean the system under attack should be maintained. Racial preferencing in university ...

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After a decades-long struggle to kill affirmative action, one man succeeded by using Asian American students as a wedge, say activists from Harvard and UNC. They see through it — and have fought back ...

The front lines for the fight around affirmative action has moved to military academies after the Supreme Court banned the practice at most universities in 2023. Advocates for ending race-conscious ...

National Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Rita Braver is a national correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning," where she reports on everything from arts and culture to politics and foreign ...