Things Fall Apart, Come Together

A law professor argues affirmative action should be based not on race, but place. Plus: some customers with new insurance plans on the New York State ACA exchange are dismayed to find the selection of in-network doctors is small; how the U.S. might be able to help find the missing Nigerian schoolgirls and what might ease the ongoing violence in the region; the policy and politics of the UFT (and other municipal worker) contracts; and birth stories, dissected.