Opinion

One of the things that has struck me about the rash of dead whales on beaches in the Northeast is that it has been going on for years, millenniums, in fact.

I’m one of those people who has extraordinarily intense dreams and who always wants to talk about them.

The people running for town board seem steady and competent, but there is a lackluster quality to them at a time of unprecedented change for the town as a whole.

When, exactly, did Patch­ogue get cool?

The passing of Burt Bacharach on Feb. 8 frees me to reveal that he was my first love.

“Tennis players live nine years longer,” I said to the guys I was playing doubles with the other day.

One of our favorite things that libraries are doing these days as they expand their roles in their communities is providing flower, vegetable, and herb seeds, as well as the know-how to sow them.

This year for Black History Month I have been occupied by preparing for an exhibit at the Sag Harbor Cinema, intended to reach a broad audience.

A year has passed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sadly, an end to the tragedy is not in sight.

A 74,000-person study last year published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that shifting food habits absolutely helps us live longer.

The big game on Fox Sports — what could go wrong?

The remarkable story of a man of character who bought his way out of bondage and became a successful landowner.

Quiescence tends to corrupt and absolute quiescence corrupts absolutely.

Southampton College may have been doomed from the start.

All is not death and doom in the new forest clearings. Here and there, new plant communities are taking hold.

You get me, YouTube, you really do.

Calling Manny Farber . . .

Love is revealed in a rediscovered box of notes from 1999.

The degree to which our national leaders lack a sense of contrition, or even decency, today is staggering.

The late John Niles, who coached the 1986 Bridgehampton High Killer Bees boys basketball team, said it was the best group of athletes who’d ever played for him.

Other than buying a set of tires, a cabin air filter, windshield wipers, and keeping up with the oil change schedule, my Honda Clarity has had no costs other than for electricity — about $2.50 for 45 to 50 miles’ charge.

The animals in my garden are behaving like they think they are stars in a Beatrix Potter story or something, and I don’t mean they are comporting themselves adorably.

The controversy involving both East Hampton Village beach-parking permits and the mayor’s attempt to take over the East Hampton Volunteer Ambulance Association might not seem related, but there is an obvious way they are linked — and that is politics.

When the seas go up because of climate change, the beaches and bluffs go back, and this should have added new urgency to the region’s coastal planning.

The scale of a 50-lot proposal in Wainscott is of regional concern, with noise, water pollution, and traffic congestion at the top of the list.

In pursuit of wintertime self-improvement, through enhanced coffee intake and otherwise.

From presidential libraries to art centers, there is inspiration to be found in quiet places that reflect the vision and ambition of the exceptional people whose legacies they preserve.

During these dark winter days it has been impossible for us to miss the proliferation of lighted “open” signs at businesses along the roads.

Isn’t it nice that in this country we can think that life here for many, young or old, offers possibility.

People talk about mindfulness a lot these days.