At Palantir, we build software and artificial intelligencecapabilitiesfor defense and intelligence agencies in the U.S. and its allies across Europe and around the world. Our work has been controversial, and not everyone will agree with our decision to build products, including software that enables...
courts have been limiting affirmative-action programs in universities and other areas. The legal rationale is that racial preferences are unconstitutional, even those intended to compensate for racism or intolerance. For many colleges, this means students can be admitted only on merit, not on their ...
"I know this is a controversial view, but I'm willing to say it. No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court — period." He added that while he can't speak for the other justices, he thinks it's "something we have all thought about." The...
Much of this coverage has been highly approving – for instance, The Guardian published a lengthyexplaineron January 24 titled “Is it time to leave WhatsApp, and is Signal the answer?” The headline was answered very much in the affirmative, to the extent that readers were offered advice on...
While there may be no significant biological racial differences between groups of people, the researchers said that does not undermine ideas--such as affirmative action--which may be based on cultural differences stemming from how groups may have been treated historically. ...
Anwar and others argue that affirmative action could be doing more harm than good by affecting trade with partners who oppose the policy.Wall Street Journal - Eastern EditionHookwayJamesFernandezCeline
a person by their skin color” trope. Hughes’s point wasn’t that we shouldn’t be aware of color, but what we need to do is concentrate on fixinggeneral societal inequalities, and should do that by a form of socioeconomic affirmative action versus pure race-based affirmative action. ...
Better educated blacks, and those with access to opportunities, have been helped along by Mbeki's affirmative action and black economic empowerment programme. They have morphed into an existing white middle class and adopted some of their ways. It has been a recipe for a degree of racial ...
Years before, the two had been his pupils at the Gymnasium, and now they were both finishing their final semester at a university. One of the young men had intro- duced himself as the law student Werner Walzer, the son of Oberstudiendirektor Walzer, Zind's superior at the Gym- nasium....
would even change his mind,” says one reigning service chief who worked under both chairmen. “Powell tends to make a decision and then go back to the tank and rally the chiefs to his point of view. He lays the agenda on the table and we all nod affirmative, and that’s about it...