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In this urgently important book, Zelnick looks past the good intentions to how affirmative action really works in such areas as voting rights, employment, minority set-asides, mortgage and insurance regulation, and education. Zelnick traces how affirmative action was first sold as a short-term program designed to expand employer awareness of qualified minority job applicants, but instead has become a coercive network of race-conscious laws, regulations, quotas, preferences, and entitlement programs - in short, an assault on the very value of equality of opportunity it was supposed to promote.

"An Obamacare 'Delay' Plan Could Backfire" is from the December 07, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Margot Sanger Katz and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Twitter, Trump's Trusty Weapon, Could Backfire" is from the May 18, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Farhad Manjoo and narrated by Fleet Cooper.