Why the U.S. Is Threatening Yale Over Race and Admissions

America’s long struggle with affirmative action, part of an agonizing national reckoning with racism, took another twist when the U.S. Justice Department threatened to sue Yale University if it didn’t immediately stop using race as a factor in undergraduate admissions. The U.S. claims Yale violates federal civil rights law by making race and national origin “the determinative factor” in hundreds of admissions decisions each year, fostering “stereotypes, bitterness and division.” Foes of affirmat