“Rethinking Affirmative Action”: In the Sunday Review section of today’s edition of The New York Times, David Leonhardt has this “Capital Ideas” essay.

“The judicial jihad against the regulatory state”: Business columnist Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post has this essay today in that newspaper.

“Arlen Specter, 82, Dies; Former Senator From Pennsylvania”: The New York Times has posted online an obituary that begins, “Arlen Specter, the irascible senator from Pennsylvania who was at the center of many of the Senate’s most divisive legal battles — from the Supreme Court nominations of Robert H. Bork and Clarence Thomas to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton — only to lose his seat in 2010 after quitting the Republican Party to become a Democrat, died Sunday morning at his home in Philadelphia. He was 82.”

“Juvenile Killers and Life Terms: a Case in Point.” Ethan Bronner has this front page article today in The New York Times.

“Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Will voter ID fight determine the election?” Michael Kirkland of UPI has this report.