David Matthews Portable Bohemia

The title of Lesley Stahl's interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday's episode of 60 Minutes gives the game away: "from the...

Indictment frenzy grips the nation. Well, the news corps and punditocracy, at any rate. Here at the Portable Bohemia nerve center there...

Language guidance is all the rage at academic institutions and nonprofits. Some of it could fall under the rubric of traditional style...

Today I am left with Samuel Beckett: "nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to...

This week House Republicans engineered a pair of concurrent resolutions to safeguard the country from the twin horrors of socialism and...

Hall of Fame second baseman and manager Frankie Frisch (1898­–1973), "the Fordham Flash," hated it when his pitchers walked opposing...

The George Santos miniseries saga continues to spin off spectacular storylines, each more wildly improbable than the last. The first...

I have a new hero. Her name is Ada Wordsworth. What I know of Wordsworth comes from an article she wrote that appears in the current...

The consensus is that it could have been worse. As Mona Charen put it on the morning after, "Yes, some horrible candidates won, and a few...

Sometimes fate messes with our heads. A player steps out from an ensemble cast onto the stage in a role no one would have anticipated....

Portlanders face a less than optimal choice in the city council race between incumbent Jo Ann Hardesty and challenger Rene Gonzalez. I...

It seems that the Proud Boys have anointed themselves America's morality police. While taking a Saturday morning walk with a friend in a...

Indivisible Oregon is an activist group that coalesced after the 2016 election to resist the Trump agenda. Much of the group's focus is...

The tyrant Putin declared a partial military mobilization to call up as many as 300,000 poorly trained, equipped, and motivated...

Special master. Isn't that a poem by Allen Ginsberg? No, wait, the Ginsberg poem is "Please Master." To the best of my knowledge Trump's...

Justice Department officials are urged to tread cautiously in the investigation and possible prosecution of Donald Trump for a...

The FBI search of the Trump palace at Mar-a-Lago has prompted some interesting propositions of a political and legal nature. The...

My old bête noir Jordan Peterson has resurfaced in the ranks of the "Yes, Russia is wrong to invade Ukraine, but…" faction. As David...

Tuesday's public hearing conducted by the January 6 committee brought no bombshell revelations, just the ongoing, steady accretion of...

The saying that ours is a government of laws and not of men came to mind while I watched the January 6 committee hearing on Tuesday. Adam...