Editorials

When The Times published a group of internal Supreme Court communications, it laid bare what has now been called “a major milestone in the decline of American democracy.”

Students’ personalities and passions shone through at the East Hampton High School Science Research Symposium.

At one point last year, 10 separate signs stood alongside the highway at the supposed “gateway” to East Hampton.

As prescient as our anti-development forefathers were, no one seems to have predicted what the real murderer of our Main Street small businesses would be: “luxury blight.”

East Hampton School District residents will soon have the chance to vote on three measures of importance not just to students but also the wider community.

Late April and May are the moment on the calendar when pollinators need our help to rebuild their strength.

Do our representatives in Congress have the strength of character to break with President Trump on the war in Iran?

The bribery problem stems from a mushy caveat in both state and town law.

The saga of the White House ballroom is a planning and development drama unlike anything in the annals of American politics.

The Trump administration is considering eliminating regulations intended to help protect the few remaining right whales from vessel strikes.

There are many obvious benefits to e-bikes, from convenience to cost, but the safety dangers are just as obvious.

There is an important caveat regarding privacy and the way locally collected data could be abused.

Art that can be seen and appreciated by people passing by is largely limited to private property.

Americans should pay close attention to the disturbing tactics being used by the White House and Pentagon to punish news outlets that stray from the federal government’s approved talking points.

Regarding “beautifying” Amagansett’s Main Street, do less, don’t do nothing.

Whether the next project along Springs-Fireplace Road is a long-proposed car wash or something else, the potential redevelopment south of Abraham’s Path is massive.

Comprehensive plans are more vision statements than action plans, but in one key aspect a near-final draft for East Hampton Village is specific and deserves close attention.

With highly pathogenic avian influenza on the march and in numerous dead geese, now is a good time to skip the beach walk with the family dog.

According to the National Weather Service, freezing roads are responsible for nearly four times more deadly accidents than all other weather hazards combined.

It turns out that there is a powerful biological basis for helping out.

It turns out that all this snow isn’t, in fact, killing off the blasted ticks.

“Show us your papers,” the feds insist? They’re looking to solve a problem that doesn’t actually exist.

A new public safety building in downtown Montauk is a great idea. Now what about some sidewalks?

What to do about submissions that appear to be the product of artificial intelligence, rather than an original work by a real person?

In the same spirit as his assault on America’s research institutions, President Trump is gunning for our libraries and museums.

Precious minutes can be lost if a house is aflame and firefighters have to scramble to find hydrants and then dig them out as the flames rise.

It may be snowy February, but people are starting to notice an East Hampton Village plan to extend its daytime ban on pets and vehicles on the beach to Columbus Day.

Norms change. And it’s time for a norm change around gas leaf blowers.

The 40-acre Montauk property known to surfers and surfcasters as the Ranch is a priority for preservation.

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