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A.I. in the Letters

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

Feb 12, 2026
Gristmill: O Say Can You Jeer?

When representing your home country isn’t so easy.

Feb 12, 2026
Guestwords: A Men’s Club for Film

The idea of a men’s book club, but for films, ticked a lot of boxes: manageable time commitment for a perfectly masculine activity in which plot structure and technique were front and center. Thus was born the GODAWFUL Film Society.

Feb 12, 2026
The Mast-Head: America’s Long Past

Say what you will about the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show, it was one hell of a lesson on the span of time.

Feb 12, 2026
The Shipwreck Rose: Love Letters

The Ladies Village Improvement Society may be to blame for my psychological impulse to imagine each incoming “mail piece” as a potential present from some secret admirer or perhaps a fan letter with an enclosed hundred-dollar bill.

Feb 12, 2026
Trump Goes to the Library

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

Feb 12, 2026
Do You Know Where Your Hydrant Is?

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.

Feb 5, 2026
Gristmill: Here’s to the Losers

“Wonder Man” on Disney+ succeeds with an unlikely friendship between two struggling actors compromised in different ways.

Feb 5, 2026
Guestwords: Into the Mind’s Badlands

My crash course introduction to my mother’s imaginary world began with a home visit to plan her surprise 90th birthday party.

Feb 5, 2026
The Mast-Head: Forgotten Places

Fallen houses have always drawn crowds.

Feb 5, 2026
The Shipwreck Rose: Chatterbox

Dr. Russell Hurlburt’s tests reveal that about 30 to 50 percent of people regularly talk to themselves silently.

Feb 5, 2026
Tread Softly on Beach Rules

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.

Feb 5, 2026
Ban the Blowers

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

Jan 29, 2026
Gristmill: Color Me Impressed

Hints of blue in a drift of snow? It’s a sign that a rare “real winter” has hit the South Fork.

Jan 29, 2026
Guestwords: About That Swamp Memorial

Memorializing the former Swamp disco and Annex restaurant site on a 1.1-acre highway parcel in Wainscott is a misguided idea.

Jan 29, 2026
Save the Ranch

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

Jan 29, 2026
The Mast-Head: The Common Thread

The Trump administration checks all the boxes on a list of fascist tendencies.

Jan 29, 2026
The Shipwreck Rose: Cats and Dogs

My lack of anything interesting to tell you this week makes me worried that I will soon be treating you to repeated columns about the bird feeder.

Jan 29, 2026
The Shipwreck Rose: Yes and No

As an editor in the Vogue features department, I was never in the position of making aesthetic decisions about clothing, accessories, makeup, or shoes, but I did exert my opinions about language.

Jan 22, 2026
Devaluing Human Life

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

Jan 22, 2026
Gristmill: They Wuz Robbed

In the N.F.L., the wrong people tend to get shown the door.

Jan 22, 2026
Guestwords: The Crucible

America’s most intense crucible was, of course, the Civil War. Now we have been plunged into another period of national testing, and it is by no means certain that our political system will survive.

Jan 22, 2026
The Mast-Head: CliffsNotes Fascism

Do we really think that Pete Hegseth has ever read a book?

Jan 22, 2026
The Spirit of Revolution

Looking ahead toward the summer of 2026, there are some substantial and fascinating semiquincentennial events on the horizon.

Jan 22, 2026
Change at Jamaica

There’s good news and there’s bad news for passengers on the Long Island Rail Road.

Jan 15, 2026
Gristmill: Thanks All the Way Down

When even a diminished public radio landscape drives you near to insane.

Jan 15, 2026
Guestwords: Still Working?

I have found that the biggest challenge of all is to make sense of what it means to find myself in the midst of middle-old age.

Jan 15, 2026
The Mast-Head: Celebrating the Violence

After we posted a story about a vigil here for Renee Good, quite a few of the accounts that attacked her, The Star, or liberals in general I knew from around town. Their anger surprised me in its intensity.

Jan 15, 2026
The Shipwreck Rose: You Say Paprika

Wiping out variety and multiplicity — in any form, culturally or environmentally, through globalization or technology — is never healthy.

Jan 15, 2026
The Time Is Now

The United States House of Representatives should impeach President Trump and the Senate should convict him.

Jan 15, 2026