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Oprah Winfrey is shown here speaking at the Golden Globes ceremony in 2018. (Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images, via JTA)
As a candidate, Oprah Winfrey’d likely have considerable backing from women and racial minorities, although she seems to transcend the country’s traditional racial anxieties. And, of course, she’s famous.
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President Donald Trump congratulates Senior Counselor to the President Stephen Bannon during the swearing-in of senior staff in the East Room of the White House on Jan. 22, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Sticking with his customarily modest, self-effacing tone, the president called himself “a very stable genius” and ordered his attorneys to issue “cease and desist” letters to the book’s publisher, thus displaying not only poor judgment but a complete lack of understanding of the First Amendment.
Read MoreNew York, with more than 8 million people, had 290 homicides last year. Baltimore, with slightly more than 600,000 people, had 343 homicides. How does anyone sitting in a position of authority in Baltimore justify such figures?
Read MoreWith the Ravens, Sunday’s loss kept them out of the NFL championship playoffs. And they lost it on fourth down and impossibly long yardage to go, and mere seconds left on the clock.
Read MoreThe year ends, and we should remember Jimmy Breslin rummaging through police precincts and courthouses and street corners.
Read MoreTrump’s words are one more reminder of one of his greatest shortcomings as president – he consistently reaches for ways to divide this polyglot nation.
Read MoreFifty years ago, the advertising posters for “The Graduate” showed Hoffman standing behind Anne Bancroft’s stockinged leg. The caption read, “This is Benjamin. He’s a little worried about his future.”
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President Donald Trump, center, speaks as Vice President Mike Pence, left, and House Speaker Paul Ryan, listen during a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C. (Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
President Trump’s the guy who was taking bows before the TV cameras as the bill headed toward his White House desk today.
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Ivanka Trump attends an event in Washington, D.C., on April 4, 2017. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
I was waiting for my wife’s train from New York, standing there shooting the breeze with a couple of Amtrak workers and a Baltimore City policeman, when we all looked up and there you were.
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Kayla Moore at a campaign event for her husband Roy Moore in Fairhope, Ala., Dec. 5, 2017. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
It was Roy Moore who lost Tuesday’s bid for a U.S. Senate seat from Alabama, but it was the Republican candidate’s wife, Kayla, who bequeathed their last-minute offerings for the Jews.
Read MoreThe Orioles have been playing major league baseball for more than 60 years. In all that time, how many Hall of Fame players has the club’s farm system produced?
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