Opinion

We have to wonder if Lee Zeldin will bring his conspiracy mania to the governor’s race.

Convenience mart food, and food for thought, at a pit stop in the land of plenty.

We are seeing a resurgence of attitudes antagonistic to correcting systemic racism. After two years of listening, there is not only fatigue around these conversations, but also significant pushback. So we must act.

According to our sources at the various East End food pantries, many of our neighbors still need assistance getting healthful meals on the table.

I’m intrigued by the fact that I’ve been diagnosed with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.

It’s important to talk about how social media distorts the digital world we see — and don’t see.

I’m not going to go gentle into that good night.

The East Hampton Star and The Suffolk Times have been the county’s “official” newspapers for their respective towns for about as long as anyone can remember. That was until this year, when the Suffolk Legislature removed them from the list.

The question for voters in the village is whether they think it is healthy or wise to support the mayor’s hand-picked candidates.

What’s all this fuss about lawn care?

Nature on Earth is in a man-made death spiral, but imagine how much faster we would be killing life as we know it if everyone on this fragile orb followed the lead of America’s most “successful.”

It has been clear that because of their refusal to cooperate on effective noise control, the airport interests themselves are forcing the town’s hand.

Countries like Britain, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, all chagrined by mass shootings at one time or another, have all effectively enacted gun safety laws.

When people complain about tape, most times, it seems to me, they are talking about red. But in my case, my beef is with blue, literally.

I have actually considered if I would or wouldn’t bow, if and when I were to meet Queen Elizabeth.

Here we are again — after each mass shooting, calls resume for stronger gun-control laws. Yet the killing goes on.

When your kids start going to the movies without you.

I satisfied my departed dad’s spirit as Rosanne Cash sang about enshrining her departed dad during a benefit concert at the State Theatre, a plaster palace in Easton, Pa.

East Hampton Town appears about to have the wool pulled over its eyes again in Montauk.

East Hampton Village residents should wonder why precisely it is that the trustees are eager to install a specialized glass playing enclosure for a sport that no one has heard of.

Covid worries and pollen aside, I can think of nowhere else I’d rather be at this time of year.

Living where I do down in the dunes past Amagansett, ticks are just part of the scenery.

Is it weird that I think of mortality — transience and permanence — whenever I drive my car on the New Jersey Turnpike?

Nantucket voters earlier this month voted in favor of topless bathing. But what about New York State, or even East Hampton?

It can be hard to muster much enthusiasm for N.B.A. players today, when you were weaned on the likes of Larry Bird, Robert Parish, and Kevin McHale.

If you’re like me, a fishing greenhorn after you’ve already gone gray, I’ve got a few tips.

Did those who died in this country’s wars, who defended an egalitarian, optimistic, forward-looking society, die so that its lawmaking bodies would simply sit on their hands doing nothing, stymied when confronted with issues demanding action?

It is often said that gas prices are out of whack on the South Fork, and now all prices are.

Most, if not nearly all, of the Airbnb hosts in East Hampton Town are breaking the law.

There is a little-known grave­site in East Hampton where the remains of Nathaniel R. Arch, a genuine United States war hero, lie.