Melania Trump, wife to the world’s most powerful cyberbully, spoke on Monday at an anti-cyberbullying summit held in Rockville, Maryland.

By many accounts, the New York University professor Avital Ronell—a German and comparative literature scholar and a superstar in her corner of academia— is a brilliant woman and a sought-after advisor. Former students who have taken her classes describe her as “original” and “inspiring.” Ronell, who is in her 60s and…

A few months ago, I started noticing that whenever I washed or combed my hair, huge clumps of it would fall out. I ignored it—I have (had?) a lot of hair, and I figured I was maybe just going through a stressful time in my life, or that my body was getting used to a new medication I’d started taking.

Help!

Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips—the Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple and took his case all the way to the Supreme Court—has filed yet another lawsuit claiming religious discrimination, this time in response to a ruling that he discriminated against a transgender woman when he…

In addition to making some pretty historic firsts, last night’s Democratic primaries were a big win for progressive women who support Medicare for All, a $15 minimum wage, and tuition-free college.

As an auntie to seven (!!!) beautiful, sweet young children, I often wonder what I would do if my siblings’ spawn turn out to be total dicks. Apparently, Stephen Miller’s uncle has been pondering the same exact question, and in an essay for Politico, Miller’s uncle David S. Glosser takes his balding white supremacist…

Are you tired yet of hearing about Omarosa Manigault Newman’s upcoming book Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House? I know I am!

Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.

On Thursday, the Trump administration announced that Carla Provost, who has been serving as acting chief of the Border Patrol since 2017, will become the next head of the agency that has terrorized immigrant communities since its founding and, in recent months, has come under severe criticism for its role in…

Hope Hicks, the former White House Communications Director who was best known for being extremely quiet and reluctant to speak to members of the press (which some might call not doing her job), dating a fellow White House staffer who resigned after the emergence of allegations of domestic abuse, and testifying before…

Hundreds of FOIA documents obtained by ProPublica reveal that three Mar-a-Lago members—including Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter (!!!)—have wielded outsized influence at the Department of Veterans Affairs, from pushing their own policy agendas that VA employees treat as “orders” to forcing out VA…

On Monday, the Capital Gazette reported that for months, the Republican National Committee’s website listed the wrong Twitter handle for the Maryland state Party—sending people instead to an account for the website Sexy Car Babes.

Caitlyn Jenner, according to a new profile in Variety, has been quietly advocating for transgender rights with Trump administration officials and members of Congress, regularly traveling to Washington DC to change the minds of Republican leaders who have long championed legislation and policies that actively harm…

Last Friday, the mothers of three transgender teenagers in Ohio filed a federal lawsuit against a county judge who they charge has a “disturbing pattern and practice” of refusing to allow transgender minors to legally change their names.

As longstanding calls from activists to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement have gained steam in the wake of the family separation crisis, and as more politicians and candidates for office take up the rallying cry, there has been a spate of articles and op-eds all asking the same questions: What does abolish…

If like me you are the kind of person whose stupid heart can find sympathy for almost anyone who gives off the slightest whiff of the pathetic no matter who they are, you may feel a tiny pang of pity towards Sean Spicer.

After subjecting migrant families to months of forced separation and reuniting parents and their children only under extreme pressure from the American public and a federal judge’s court order, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now trying to coerce newly reunited families to leave the country, according to new…

More details are emerging about current Don Jr. paramour and former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle’s departure from the network, and unsurprisingly, it turns out that she was a real piece of work!

Just....don’t.