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Supreme Court

The Supreme Court Could End Affirmative Action

In the two cases, brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions argues that race-conscious admissions violate the Civil Rights Act

Emma Camp | 10.31.2022 4:44 PM

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Affirmative Action

Fourth Circuit Stays Trial Court Ruling Against Racial Balancing Policy Discriminating Against Asian Applicants to Prominent Virginia Public School

The stay may signal that the federal appellate court will ultimately uphold the school's policy.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 4.1.2022 6:41 PM

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Book Reviews

First World Problems

Asian-American communities are full of stark divisions—including splits over whether to see themselves as "Asian Americans" in the first place.

Musa al-Gharbi | 2.20.2022 8:00 AM

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Affirmative Action

Kenny Xu: The Growing Attacks on Asian American Excellence

The Inconvenient Minority author and head of Color Us United says it's time for the country to become truly colorblind.

Nick Gillespie | 12.8.2021 4:15 PM

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Racism

Opposing Racism Doesn't Require Promoting Victimhood

The ideas put forward by Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi are fundamentally "anti-black."

John Stossel | 9.8.2021 1:47 PM

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Reason Roundup

Senate Passes Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Bill That Doesn't Prohibit Discrimination in College Admissions

Plus: Biden proposes a massive tax hike, scientists may have invented a successful malaria vaccine, and more...

Robby Soave | 4.23.2021 9:38 AM

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My "The Hill" Article About Anti-Asian Discrimination on Left and Right

The article shows how the left and right-wing versions of hostility to Asians have much in common.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 4.6.2021 12:24 PM

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Melissa Chen on Fighting Wokeness at Home and Radicalism Abroad

The journalist and free-speech activist says identity politics are destroying the media, higher education, and Hollywood.

Regan Taylor and Nick Gillespie | 4.3.2021 10:20 AM

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Asian Americans

An Elite Public High School Changed Its Admissions Standards To Reduce the Asian-American Student Population

In the name of helping racial minorities, officials are adopting a plan that would boost whites at the expense of Asian Americans.

Robby Soave | 4.2.2021 8:30 AM

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Asian Americans

Melissa Chen: "Ideas Have Consequences. So Does Silence."

The Singapore-born journalist and free-speech activist says identity politics are destroying the media, higher ed, and Hollywood.

Nick Gillespie | 3.24.2021 5:42 PM

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Reason Roundup

Massage Parlor Massacre: 8 Killed in Atlanta, Media Speculate About Anti-Asian Motive

Plus: Columbus, Ohio, wants six months in jail for first-time sex customers, Texas' new social media bill is a mess, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.17.2021 9:39 AM

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Affirmative Action

Important New Lawsuit Challenges Attempted Racial Balancing at Prominent Selective Virginia Public High School

The case could set an important precedent because it addresses facially neutral attempts at racial balancing, and because the school in question is currently over 70% Asian-American, and new policy seeks to reduce that percentage.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 3.16.2021 4:59 PM

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Sex Trafficking

ICE Agents Fight Sex Trafficking by Paying Potential Victims for Hand Jobs

In "Operation Asian Touch," federal agents coerced suspected human-trafficking victims into sex acts. Local cops seized money and threw them in jail.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.14.2020 12:50 PM

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Stossel: End Racial Preferences at Colleges?

Asians sue Harvard for discrimination in a case that may end college racial preferences.

John Stossel and Maxim Lott | 1.2.2019 9:40 AM

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