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Disparate impact is a critical tool for enforcing civil rights laws. Prohibiting intentional discrimination is important, but ...

The administration is dismissing cases and unwinding settlements built on "disparate impact," which holds that even neutral ...

Matt and Sam discuss Christopher Caldwell's The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, a broadside against the 1964 ...

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Lawson was an apostle of nonviolent protest — and close adviser to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights ...

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