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The Supreme Court’s Contempt for History Promises a Worse Racial Future for U.S.
Last summer the U.S. Supreme Court struck down universities’ use of race-based affirmative action, forbidding schools from considering race in deciding whether to admit qualified applicants. The high court’s majority relied on two tricks to do so—tricks …