Trump wants to undo all kinds of race and gender progress. Here’s what stands in his way – Los Angeles Times (paywall)

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By Robin Abcarian, Columnist, March 9, 2025 3 AM PT

The Trump administration is hell-bent on “restoring” this country to an entirely fictional time when white people succeeded based purely on merit, people of color got ahead solely because of affirmative action and women understood that they were the inferior sex.

Trump’s hostility to social progress and civil rights is seeping into every corner of life — the armed forces, college and university campuses, public schools and corporations.

Column: Trump’s reversal of race and gender progress faces an obstacle – Los Angeles Times