Here is a brief history of the terms and how they have been used. By Anemona Hartocollis and Daniel Victor The Supreme Court’s majority ruling on Thursday that rejected race-conscious admissions at ...

McMahon is the chair of the department of history and the David W. Little Class of 1944 Professor at Dartmouth College. He the author of the recently published Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea ...

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A conversation with the historian Darrin McMahon about his new book Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea and the strange and contradicting development of the liberal version of egalitarianism. A ...

I was recently asked to give the keynote address for a youth leadership conference. In the invitation, they informed me that the conference theme was inequality and that I had only 10 minutes to speak ...

In my previous post "Is the U.S. Really a Land of Opportunity for Children?" we learned that people in the U.S. show fewer gains in social mobility than people in other countries. Social mobility ...

The subject of "equality" is often discussed, written about and, today, demanded. That said, there is a difference between absolute equality, perceived equality, actual equality and selective equality ...

The gender pay gap affects women of all races, nationalities, sexual orientations, gender expressions and lifestyles. Equal Pay Day is March 14 this year, showing how far into the next year women in ...

(WJW) — On Wednesday, Republican State Reps. Levi Dean and Johnathan Newman are set to introduce a controversial new bill at the Ohio Statehouse that would ban abortion in the Buckeye State. The ...

After the fall of Roe v. Wade, could the Supreme Court reverse itself on Obergefell v. Hodges, too? While presidents wield significant power through executive actions, it’s crucial to remember the ...