David Matthews Portable Bohemia

The Green New Deal puts climate change at the head of the agenda where it belongs. The resolution introduced in the House by Alexandria...

Might there come a point where Democrats should consider giving the president the least he will accept on funding for his wall...

My old friend Chuck Oliveros called to chat. The conversation commenced with baseball, specifically the pursuit of free agents Bryce...

Readers of my generation may share my foggy recollection of the British satirical news show That Was the Week That Was, which ran for two...

Navigating the Wild Stream of Conservative Thought, Part I was published on December 7, 2018. National Review roving correspondent Kevin...

National Review touts itself as a magazine that has defined the conservative movement since it was founded by William F. Buckley Jr. in...

Among the challenges presented by the Trump regime is the sheer scope of mendacity, venality, bad policy, bad faith, bamboozlement,...

Yesterday evening an old college pal commented on Facebook that as he watched the election returns it appeared he would run out of beer...

In Oregon we receive our ballots by mail and return them by mail or delivery to designated drop-off locations. The system seems to work...

Ron DeSantis, Florida's Republican candidate for governor, got raked over the coals for race-baiting after he used the words "articulate"...

This is the conclusion of a two-part essay. Part I was published August 28, 2018. The going gets thorny when Jordan Peterson moves away...

The strange and curious case of Jordan Peterson could be the scenario for a television minidrama scripted by a disciple of Ayn Rand. An...

Maybe you heard about the foofaraw at The Nation over publication of a poem by a young white poet who used black dialect and ableist...

A cottage industry has grown up around the premise that conservatives are routinely victimized by liberal elites who dominate American...

Event organizers estimated that 5,000 people gathered on Portland's North Park Blocks yesterday morning for the Families Belong Together...

On Wednesday the Immigration and Customs Enforcement regional office in Portland was closed by the agency due to security concerns...

Saturday marked the anniversary of the stabbing on May 26, 2017, of three riders on a MAX train who stepped up and did the right thing...

The morning was rough, raw, overcast and cold, temperature in the forties when I arrived downtown at 9:10 and strolled from the bus stop...

An old Atlanta pal, call him M, came out in support of Florida gun legislation that opens the door to arming teachers. While M is a...