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It can happen here: Increasing concern over the growing suppression of Georgia’s independent media.

A leading feminist artist transitions beyond shame to helping others with their own.

An unexpected hiccup in getting a pampered nine-pound terrier from L.A. to the East End of Long Island.

An artist on her working-class upbringing in Minnesota, the Beatles, and a life through the prism of magical realism.

I knew this would be no ordinary house. As a neighborhood kid, I saw Julian and Barbara Neski’s 1964 modernist masterpiece on Terbell Lane develop, and got to know the owners, Sy and Ronnie Chalif.

A lifelong Red Sox fan says the enemy Yankees made him a better loser. You might say even a good-will ambassador.

Afflicted by tennis elbow, tennis shoulder, and tennis groin, I didn't know from physical therapy. I always hated gyms and their scary steel machines. Not anymore.

What the sorcerer Simon Magus’s cynical and self-aggrandizing quest for power can teach us today.

The best kind of beach day.

My friends and I never said “the Hamptons” growing up. That label refers to a resort for summer people and weekend warriors, not a place where you go to high school. But is “out east” any better?

Standing in a fish market, a valued 31-year customer gets a credit card company on the horn, and, oh boy.

This fall a Horseshoe Crab Protection Act will land on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk. It would ban harvesting these ancient creatures in New York rather than merely setting quotas, and this is vital to safeguard a species whose extinction would have far-reaching implications.

History is never an objective description of How Things Really Were. History is a human science and art, conveying the values of the historian.

How can we promote deeper feelings toward trees? I suggest we direct our attention to the one set of people who are spontaneously enthusiastic about them: children.

A 91-year-old physicist questions the wisdom he has acquired during a productive and well-lived life.

The hostile takeover of our airspace started pre-pandemic but was accelerated by it: a collective attempt to sanitize our lives with scents that scream “no germs here.” This is my outcry.

Through rainy weather, no wind, uncooperative currents, heavy seas, and thunderstorms, three friends and sailors keep it together — and keep talking.

There I was at the Red Cross training program, a mother of four and a grandmother of two joining two young girls, one who wanted to be a lifeguard and another who was taking the course for recertification. I just wanted to keep up.

Adventures in yardin’ from the 1990s into the aughts.

I am not the only one who has noted the frankly unfriendly reception science and scientists are receiving these days, but what is most disturbing is the exodus of young aspiring scientists, the next generation.

The notion of “defeating cancer” is a lesion in our language and our national psyche that does damage to both the inflicted and their loved ones.

A “Way It Was” entry in this newspaper from 1950 about a 36-foot, 19th-century gondola being transported by railcar to the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Va., unleashes a flood of memories.

East Hampton is home to a renowned Georgian artist, Sergo Tbileli, who has brought his native country’s art and culture to the forefront here.

Memories of midcentury New York and an important figure in a woman’s life — the fun aunt.

I’m a dog person. Except when it comes to boats. With boats, I worry I might be a cat person.

Mother’s Day brought the memories, both wistful and comforting.

One shining example of what customer service really means.

Riverhead is blessed to have an organization, the Butterfly Effect Project, that sees how girls are butterflies in progress, from birth, to caterpillar, to chrysalis, to adult.

How well do bioplastics decompose? While they claim to be compostable, many, including the most common, require industrial high-temperature composting and do not degrade in home composters, soil, or water.

We need to show Americans a higher power that has a story they can claim as their own. We need to show that God is empowering ordinary people to do God’s work in the face of dark forces.