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Stephen Miller, adviser to President Trump. (Evan Vucci / AP) Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to Donald Trump on immigration issues, said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that “the whole world will soon see” that the president’s executive powers “will not be questioned.” The Guardian reports: “We have a judiciary that has taken far too much power and become in many cases a supreme branch of government,” said Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to Trump on immigration issues, appearing on the CBS program Face the Nation. Читать дальше...

Among the orders is a directive for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to prioritize fighting illegal immigration, drug trafficking and violent crime.

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By Henry A. Giroux / Ragazine For Aldous Huxley, there was hope in a pessimism that had exhausted itself; for George Orwell, optimism had to be tempered by a sense of educated hope.

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By Rajan Menon / TomDispatch Sooner or later, if the president doesn’t dial down his rhetoric on China, its leaders will surely ratchet up theirs.

By Alex Kirby / Climate News Network Electric trains in the Netherlands have relied entirely on green energy since Jan. 1, and now the U.K. and Belgium are following in their tracks.

In a segment titled “Trump vs. Truth,” the “Last Week Tonight” host asks crucial questions about the new president’s approach to facts and offers some ideas about how to combat misinformation.

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Sunday on Meet the Press, Stephen Miller, a snot-nosed kid with a bad attitude advertised as White House senior policy adviser, delivered himself of many Big Lies of which Josef Goebbels would be jealous.

By Robert Reich / RobertReich.org Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway charges that media coverage of Donald Trump lacks “respect for and recognition of the dignity for the office of the president.”

After 13 years covering the U.S. war on drugs in Colombia, an investigative reporter begins a new journey with his family—learning how to live with an invisible illness.

Chris Hedges and Matt Taibbi have a pretty good idea—and in this clip, a compelling dialogue—about how Donald Trump made U.S. politics work for him.

The danger we face does not come, in the end, from Donald Trump and his malignant cabal. It comes from severely weakened and corrupted democratic institutions.

Playwright Bryonn Bain, who turned his own harrowing experiences into a one-man dramatic production, joins director Gina Belafonte for a Truthdig interview.

By Common Dreams staff Hundreds of demonstrations in support of the beleaguered reproductive health services provider were held across the country Saturday.