Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Econ Griot, telling culture and economic stories on radio and beyond. The fight over DEI didn’t begin in boardrooms or HR ...

Part I. From Kennedy to Reagan -- Affirmative action before Kennedy -- Kennedy and Johnson -- Affirmative action spreads-and mutates -- Nixon and the Philadelphia plan -- Prejudice persists, ...

In 2023, after the Supreme Court said universities could no longer use race when considering potential students, Jason Riley watched with interest as proponents of affirmative action spoke in ...

Janet Petro, NASA’s acting administrator, wrote the following about diversity, equity and inclusion in a memo on Jan. 22: “These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and ...

Editor's note: This blog was updated in April 2023. This term, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide on two cases concerning affirmative action brought by the conservative activist group Students ...

Twenty-five years ago, in an episode of Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiam” television series titled “Affirmative Action,” the comedian’s friend Richard Lewis introduces him to Dr. Grambs, a Black ...

On this episode of the Washington Monthly Podcast, Anne Kim and Paul Glastris talk with Richard Kahlenberg, constitutional lawyer and leading advocate for class-based affirmative action. Kahlenberg, ...

My article Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action has finally been published by the Florida Law Review. In these days of federal attacks on private DEI, ...

When the Heritage Foundation think tank drew up an expansive presidential transition plan in anticipation of Donald Trump’s return to power, one of its chief policy goals was eliminating affirmative ...