By Kelly Weill Originally published at www.thedailybeast.com on March 30, 2018. On Friday night, Roseanne Barr tweeted a bizarre message that no one seemed to understand. “President Trump has freed so many children held in bondage to pimps all over this world. Hundreds each month. …

By Kelly Weill Originally published at www.thedailybeast.com on March 29, 2018. Some have turned federal informant. Others are facing prison time. More are named in looming lawsuits. All of them are fighting. Last summer, the American alt-right was presenting itself as a threatening, unified front, gaining national attention with a…

By Amy Zimmerman Originally published at www.thedailybeast.com on March 29, 2018. The difficult-to-pronounce word on everybody’s lips this week is Nxivm, the self-help “company” that former members have deemed a cult. Nxivm (pronounced “Nexium”) is currently in the press because its leader Keith Raniere was arrested in Mexico on Sunday…

By Lloyd Grove Originally published at www.thedailybeast.com on March 28, 2018. Right-wing firebrand Ann Coulter, whose 2016 campaign book In Trump We Trust touted the many virtues of the Republican nominee, is having second, third, and possibly even fourth thoughts about Donald J. Trump. “I knew he was a shallow…

By Justin Rohrlich Originally published at www.thedailybeast.com on March 28, 2018. Last year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 226,119 people. Jakiw Palij wasn’t one of them. During the first three months of ICE’s 2018 fiscal year, the agency deported 56,710 people, 46 percent of whom had not been convicted…

By Michael Tomasky Originally published at www.thedailybeast.com on March 27, 2018. Amidst the numbing chaos that is the Trump administration, these past few days are worth reflecting on because three events have moved the needle in a bad direction. 1. The hiring of John Bolton highlights Donald Trump’s instability, his…

By Amy Zimmerman Originally published at www.thedailybeast.com on March 26, 2018. A lot of men on Twitter have been reducing the Stormy Daniels story to sex. It’s a disturbing but utterly predictable trend — of course the “porn star Stormy Daniels,” as so many outlets and commentators insist on endlessly…

By Kate Briquelet, Asawin Suebsaeng Originally published at www.thedailybeast.com on March 25, 2018. As the 2016 presidential campaign entered its homestretch, Donald Trump and his team were drowning in the fallout of the infamous “grab ’em by the pussy” tape and the torrent of sexual assault and harassment allegations that…

By Rosemary Sword, Gail Sheehy Originally published at www.thedailybeast.com on March 24, 2018. With reports that a giddy commander in chief is running around the White House like a kid freed of any adult supervision, having dispatched every moderate who hasn’t resigned in hopes of saving a shred of his…