I’d make this one exception to the “No Kings” movement. This Nobel Peace Prize winner truly cared about the poor, the hungry, the huddled masses yearning to be free.

Drake prevails over Baker in Pats’ sweetest win of the year.

Mad Max making heterochromia iridis look good for the Hue Jays.

I try to be nonjudgmental. Here in November, our month to choose in this precious, fragile democracy, smart people can disagree about who should be NYC’s next mayor. Wise souls might root for the Dodgers tonight as I cheer for the Blue Jays. But indisputably, Macouns are the best apples.

And now for an encore, Mr. Ohtani (fresh off two home runs, two doubles, and nine—NINE—times on base) will step into a phone booth, don a cape with an S on it, and emerge as Shohei-man, superb starting pitcher. It is comic book cool.

Lady Liberty, America at its finest, is 139 years old today. It’s up to all of us to keep that fire burning.

Yesterday: the Preakness. Today: Springfield College graduation. Huge weekend for JOURNALISM!

Down the stretch they come, and it’s JOURNALISM! Besieged. Derided. Vulnerable. But never more important.