Richard D.Kahlenberg

The adoption of so-called "right to work" legislation in Michigan, of all places, represents an historic setback for organized labor. First, Republicans went after public employees in the birthplace of public unions, Wisconsin. And now they have taken the fight to private employee unions in the cradle of modern industrial unionism.

Fisher v. University of Texas “might become the biggest case ever on racial preferences in university admissions.”

When it comes to education, Democrats like Rahm Emanuel are as anti-union as Republicans. That's bad for teachers, and bad for students.

One of the most consequential political decisions of the presidential campaign may soon take place without anyone noticing. On Monday, August 13, the Obama administration is slated to file an amicus brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case challenging the use of racial preferences in admission to the University of Texas at Austin.

Whither Opportunity? demonstrates that the nearly exclusive focus on the role of race in education is outdated.

As Desmond King and Rogers Smith argue in Still a House Divided, President Obama has thus far skillfully avoided taking a firm position on affirmative

Perhaps the very best thing about Steven Brill’s new book is its title. The phrase “class warfare” has a double meaning, of course, and the book paint

Terry Moe's book’s title, Special Interest, invokes a term historically applied to wealthy and powerful entities such as oil companies, tobacco intere

The New Republic

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Race to the Flop—The Problem with Affirmative Action

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President Obama’s Affirmative Action Problem and What He Should Do About It

Class Act

Out of Many

The Best and the Brightest

Scapegoating