Opinion

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.

The holiday is a good time to remember that life was more communal centuries ago, lived out in the street and on the commons, often with alcohol.

When readers struggle to escape the gender trap.

It’s hard to believe a little house, with a little store and studios, run by a kindly, helpful team of devoted community members, could do so much for the making of art here.

As the most powerful nation in the world teeters at the edge of a dictatorial cliff, historians can counter this distressingly familiar story.

The East Hampton Library is the pearl in our town’s cultural crown.

I have generally stopped overnighting at hotels of the Holiday Inn sort and instead tried when possible to book short-term rentals. It has been an education.