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affirmative action

Minority students in racially isolated schools have drastically less access to critical educational resources.

Ronald Reagan invoked Dr. King's legacy to fit with his larger political and rhetorical aims.

A different side to affirmative-action: How legacy admissions maintained white Protestant student enrollment at elite universities.

Three affirmative-action cases set precedent for the Supreme Court as they make a decision on Fisher vs. University of Texas.

The barbecue boom in 1950s American was tied to nationalistic concepts of the "perfect family": patriarchal, suburban, and white.

The way we think about the skills kids need—and even how they should play—is deeply tied to the characteristics we expect them to need as adults.

To end poverty, public policy must provide much more than economic resources

Vaccinations have always been political. But in this day and age, why do certain subsets of well-off parents choose not to vaccinate their children?

A history of shark attacks and public response to them.