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President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, January 21, 2025, in Washington
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s administration ordered that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) staff be put on paid leave by 5pm today and eventually be made redundant.
The moves follow an executive order Mr Trump signed on his first day back in office ordering a sweeping dismantling of the federal government’s DEI programmes that could touch on everything from anti-bias training to funding for minority farmers and homeowners.
The President has called the programmes “discrimination” and insisted on restoring strictly so-called “merit-based” hiring.
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
As the dollar falters and US power turns predatory, Britain and Europe must abandon transatlantic illusions and build a collectivist alternative before the system implodes, writes ALAN SIMPSON
Nigeria’s presidential spokesman grovels to the West in response to Washington intimidation, writes PAVAN KULKARNI
From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem, writes Linda Pentz Gunter