Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action

24 May 2012

A reader says the program should be based on disadvantage, not ancestry.

Letters to the Editor

23 May 2012

Weak attack on affirmative action George Parry’s commentary “Generationally wrong, fractionally correct� (Sunday) has to be one of the most empty-headed pieces of writing I’ve seen in a newspaper in a long time. I have read well-argued, principled arguments against affirmative action and, though I have not been convinced, at least I could discern a logical argument.

U.S. Must Educate Itself Beyond Affirmative Action

22 May 2012

Since its inception in the 1960s, affirmative action has been constitutionally embattled, emotionally fraught and politically divisive.