Opinion

As an editor in the Vogue features department, I was never in the position of making aesthetic decisions about clothing, accessories, makeup, or shoes, but I did exert my opinions about language.

The E.P.A. has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules.

In the N.F.L., the wrong people tend to get shown the door.

America’s most intense crucible was, of course, the Civil War. Now we have been plunged into another period of national testing, and it is by no means certain that our political system will survive.

Do we really think that Pete Hegseth has ever read a book?

Looking ahead toward the summer of 2026, there are some substantial and fascinating semiquincentennial events on the horizon.

There’s good news and there’s bad news for passengers on the Long Island Rail Road.

When even a diminished public radio landscape drives you near to insane.

I have found that the biggest challenge of all is to make sense of what it means to find myself in the midst of middle-old age.

After we posted a story about a vigil here for Renee Good, quite a few of the accounts that attacked her, The Star, or liberals in general I knew from around town. Their anger surprised me in its intensity.

Wiping out variety and multiplicity — in any form, culturally or environmentally, through globalization or technology — is never healthy.

The United States House of Representatives should impeach President Trump and the Senate should convict him.

Science should drive medical decisions.

Reluctantly checking in with the new N.B.A.

When we hear governments complain about violations of sovereignty, we must ask whose sovereignty is really being defended — and whose interests.

It is important to ask now how this clearing in Sag Harbor happened. One thing that could help prevent a similar outcome in the future is more village involvement.

It is unlikely that East Hampton is going to have food delivered by robot any time soon, but I wouldn’t rule it out.

The front of my house is a disgrace.

Bestirred by televised yule log nostalgia.

Saying goodbye to the painter Connie Fox, who died in East Hampton in 2023.

An idea making the rounds in Town Hall to change the way farmland construction projects are reviewed may have value, but a degree of caution is necessary.

Stephen Miller and others in the White House have cast their bet that stirring up race-based hatred among voters is the only hope if the extreme right is to maintain its grip on Washington.

We are warming to an increasing trend on the South Fork scene toward quieter and cozier gatherings and outings on New Year’s Day.

It is fascinating to see how a tragic event 200 years ago helped advance science.

Until December 2025, my children had distinguished themselves by not getting me proper gifts. Ever.

A brilliant gift for someone special: an affordable membership to one of our wonderful South Fork cultural institutions.

The recent spate of injuries to football’s biggest stars makes it hard to justify a 17-game schedule, let alone extending to 18.

A Christmas prayer for when our feelings of joy are mixed with grief and loss.

In a scathing denunciation of the Department of Homeland Security, a United States District court judge excoriated Immigration and Customs Enforcement for what he called the inhumane and unlawful treatment of people held at the Alfonse M. D’Amato United States Courthouse in Central Islip.

Life was slower here in the 1970s, and streaking, of all things, more prevalent.