The Supreme Court ruled that systematic considerations of race violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Tamara Jilksbore: This recent judgment by the Conservative Court could cause a swift drop in the number of students from these minority groups who go to America's best colleges. But she says it could actually spur changes that make university admissions more progressive. The decision does not apply to military academies, because racial diversity is a matter of national security.
Its leader is in exile and its future is uncertain. But the Wagner Group will be loth to abandon the influence and the cashflow that its murky African operations bring. The striking down of affirmative-action university-admissions policies in America may counterintuitively spur more-progressive and more-efficient alternatives (9:56). And the reinvention (again) of a beloved Chinese sweet treat (17:08).
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