Editorials

The Trump administration has declared all-out war on higher education, and America’s role as the world leader of scientific and medical progress is at stake.

The present town board may believe that any project it devises is benign, but the members fail to understand that a future board could misuse the relaxation of rules having to do with community-centered projects.

A “Minecraft” movie might sound unwatchable, but the phenomenon of teenage audience participation it has spurred is most welcome.

The East Hampton Town Planning Board made the right move recently by demanding additional study of a planned 50-unit industrial park in Wainscott.

What happens to our data when a company changes hands is just one of many good questions in this age of digital Big Brother. Too bad public indifference is so widespread.

It is a national challenge. In many places, there are simply too many people competing for too few affordable places to live, and nowhere worse than on the South Fork.

The osprey is a kind of modern-day phoenix, risen from the ashes of near-extermination.

The Hands Off! protest on Saturday in front of Town Hall may start small, but it may also be the start of something big.

Public media is one of the greatest cultural assets this country has. Cue the congressional show trial.

After 25 years in which no major investments were made at the Montauk School, the district’s school board will put a $38 million bond on the May ballot, seeking community approval to bring the aging facility into the modern era.

The American culture wars have become our own cultural revolution, censorship with a whimper, not a bang.

As the 2026 midterm elections loom more consequential than ever, it’s time to get out and get active.

Of all the work-force cuts by the Trump administration, none could top slashing the National Weather Service and its parent, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

As we watch wildfires on the evening news with horror, the question arises of how, exactly, an evacuation of East Hampton would work.

After months of study, a town committee worked out a new formula for maximum floor area, a key determinant in how large houses appear, and the town board has debated it and arrived at a proposal we believe is a reasonable response.

Instead of town halls in which voters can face their elected representatives and ask questions in person, uncensored, House Republicans are encouraged to hold “tele-town halls” or Facebook Live events instead.

State and local officials are making progress on a regional approach to wildfire risk elevated by the infestation of the woods by the southern pine beetle, but there is more to be done.

If congestion pricing works in Manhattan, why not on the East End?

President Trump’s new head of the E.P.A., Lee Zeldin, kicked up quite a storm of tomfoolery this week when he announced that the agency had discovered a cache of metaphorical “gold bars” valued at $2 billion.

The entire world may be in flames right now, but it keeps turning, the wheel of the seasons keeps rolling onward to brighter days.

It’s not only the Associated Press that’s dealing with White House retaliation.

The Montauk Inlet holdup is a good illustration of how Americans depend on the federal government to fund critically important work — the kind of necessities threatened by a two-headed presidency’s frenzied rush to cut spending.

The old saw “strange bedfellows” and political expedience are no decent explanation for the cast of unsavory characters our president and his administration go out of their way to call “friend.”

Elon Musk is out of control and running the show in Washington, D.C. 

Try telling a group of iceboaters that the climate hasn’t changed. Once upon a time, in the 1970s and 1980s, there was ice enough to host racing regattas on Mecox Bay.

Nearby residents could rightly be concerned about the noise a public brewery near the intersection of Springs-Fireplace Road and Fort Pond Boulevard could create.

It is worth taking a closer look at what the Retreat does to understand the depth of the harm a funding freeze would bring.

Oil was a winner this week and wind a loser in the Trump administration’s first round of executive orders.

Sharpen your skates, East Hampton.

We hope that officials here are seizing the moment to come up with new ways to reduce catastrophic risks in a region underprepared for large-scale wildfires.