David Roth

The nitwit founder of Facebook has created the worst, most damaging website in the world. And we’re just supposed to accept it.

Donald Trump will leave the White House in a blaze of truthless tweets and hapless coup attempts. Did we really expect anything else?

Can the prodigal son keep the party going?

The president’s insatiable need to traffic in rumor and conspiracy blows larger holes in our shared reality with each passing day.

Stuff himself as he may with refried globs of culture war muck, the president has a hole in his gullet that he’ll never quite fill.

Critics say defunding the police is controversial. But continuing to pay for the status quo is crazy.

Jared Kushner—climber, sycophant, snob—is the perfect avatar of elite incompetence for our times.

Far from shining a curative light on the Trump administration, the media has become engulfed by his empire of stupidity.

The president wants to "re-open" the economy, and he's enlisting corporate America to rationalize the thousands more deaths that would ensue.

From time to time, the president seems to grasp the gravity of his situation. It never lasts.

The Republicans are confronting the coronavirus with nihilism—and the Democrats are responding with impotence.

For a brief, mad moment, Michael Bloomberg illuminated the rot at the core of this new Gilded Age.

Why Sanders’s haters keep finding similarities between two politicians who could not be more different

Trump's boasts and lies about the conflict with Iran perfectly encapsulate America's petty, TV-addled, and increasingly degenerate president.

The bloodless exorbitance of the White House's Christmas stagecraft reveals a deeper truth about the presidential couple.

How the McKinsey-fied Astros cheated their way to a championship—and became a parable of American success

What a 2008 photo tells us about American political life in 2019

Making sense of Donald Trump's petulant reign