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Why the Champions of Affirmative Action Had to Leave Asian Americans Behind

Nearly a decade has passed since Students for Fair Admissions, or S.F.F.A., first filed a lawsuit against Harvard University over its race-based admissions...

Bonus Daily Cartoon: It Can Always Get Worse

“After last year’s rulings, everyone kept saying, ‘It can’t get any worse,’ and I took that personally.” Source link

Beyoncé on Tour, and Russia’s No-Good, Very Failed Coup

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The Puzzle of Putting Video Games in a Museum

At some point in my childhood, I persuaded my parents to buy me a computer game at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Obsessed,...

How Much Hotter Can Texas Get?

Texas is a state well acquainted with heat. When Cormac McCarthy, the great mythmaker of the American West, who died earlier this month,...

Daily Cartoon: Friday, June 30th

“Remember: when a wave comes, you yell in delight.” Source link

Indiana Jones and the Losing Battle Against Mortality

New York, 1969. Asleep in a chair, Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is awoken not by an explosion, or by gunfire, but by a...

Micro-Seasonal Fare, at Tribeca’s One White Street

The chef Austin Johnson, who grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, kick-started his career at the storied restaurant Canlis, in Seattle, which led to...

My Roommate’s Big on TikTok, and She Can Go to Hell

So, my roommate and I were doing fine until she got famous on TikTok. I think the fame’s changed her because she is...

The Supreme Court Overturns Fifty Years of Precedent on Affirmative Action

Race-conscious affirmative action, in which schools consider applicants’ race as a factor in admissions, has traditionally been treated as a form of “racial...

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