The conservative justice this week joined the court’s four liberals in striking down two gerrymandered districts in North Carolina. How come?

It took a very specific set of circumstances to get the Supreme Court justice to affirm the validity of race-based college admissions.

At the Supreme Court, at least one justice appeared keen to send a big case about race-based admissions back down to the lower courts.

A legal mastermind seeks to gut affirmative action and voting rights by rewriting the Fourteenth Amendment

Critics say the SAT puts minorities at a disadvantage in college admissions, but without it those groups would do even worse.

The affirmative action story

'The Sotomayor Style' is how America should talk about fairness

Richard Kahlenberg: Washington policy Quixote

Even more confusion ahead!

The U.S. military needs affirmative action now more than ever

An exchange