David Matthews Portable Bohemia

The wave of sturm und drang unleashed by the leak of Justice Samuel Alito's draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade notwithstanding, the...

When I came to Portland in 1998 and for well over a decade thereafter the city was celebrated for its vibrant, pedestrian friendly...

Today brought a flurry of colorful reports on another episode in the ongoing saga of what passes for GOP leadership, otherwise known as...

The unerring sense of decorum, proper conduct, gravitas for which Republicans are known was on display again Thursday in the Senate...

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was not alone when she wiped away tears during Cory Booker's impassioned "Nobody's Going to Steal My Joy"...

Good grief. I have not followed the hearing gavel to gavel but have caught a fair amount here and there, and as you might expect I have...

The outpouring of support for Ukraine and for strong sanctions against Russia is heartening. Some of it is performative as people take to...

Reports from Ukraine are grim. Russia is bombing Kyiv and Russian forces are converging on the capital. According to a Washington Post...

It does not require the second coming of Émile Durkheim to notice that many Americans turn to comedians for information about social and...

The good news out of DC on Sunday was that the anti-mandate/anti-vax rally numbered only several thousand, far fewer than the 20,000...

The past week brought a deluge of reporting, analysis, and commentary on the events of January 6, 2021. Much was repetitive. Much was...

Video and photos of the events of January 6, 2021, take me back to September 11, 2001. The sense of unreality as the plane flew into the...

There has been some interesting reporting about the use of "Latinx" to describe people in the U.S. who trace their roots to Latin America...

One take on the Arbery trial comes down to the glass is half empty and what remains is poisoned. The guilty verdict is downplayed and...

The outcome of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial was in no way surprising. Nor were reactions from sundry quarters of the political landscape. I...

I stand accused by the Pew Research Center of being an establishment liberal. This calumny cannot pass unremarked. Talk about...

Tuesday's election results were disappointing but not surprising. As Charlie Sykes put it, why can't we beat these guys? You know, these...

The Sinema affair at Arizona State University was a minor kerfuffle that nonetheless illustrates Joe Biden's penchant for speaking off...

I take a break from half-baked cogitation and its attendant scribbling about surrealism and me, or some such, to recommend a recently...

I give Joe Biden generally good marks for the early days of a presidency that faced multiple crises from the moment he took the oath of...