Liberals Should Focus on Class, Not Race

Liberals Should Focus on Class, Not Race

Richard D. Kahlenberg explains why the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action should have been seen as liberating for both universities and Democrats.

Diversity Without Racial Preference

In 2020, Joe Biden won California by 30 points, but at the same time, a statewide effort to restore race-based affirmative action, Proposition 16, failed by double digits. In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down race-based affirmative action on college campuses. Sixty-five House Democrats, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the chamber’s current minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, lined up with the plaintiffs, Harvard and the Univ…