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Affirmative Action: Towards a Coherent Debate
Coleman Hughes
Coleman Hughes is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at City Journal, where his writing focuses on race, public policy, and applied ethics. His writing has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Quillette, The City Journal, and The Spectator. Hughes has appeared on many podcasts and also hosts his own, Conversations with Coleman. In 2019, he testified before the U.S. Congress about slavery reparations.

This November, the citizens of California will vote on a proposition to remove the following words from their state constitution: “The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.”

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Fifteen Questions About Prop. 16 and Prop. 209
Richard H. Sander
Richard Sander is the Dukeminier Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA, and co-chair of the UCLA-RAND Center for Policy Research. He has a doctorate in economics and a law degree from Northwestern University.
The extraordinary protests and marches that swept the United States during the late spring, in the wake of the death of George Floyd, centered on calls for racial justice, but specific proposals to define and achieve racial justice were scarce.
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