Opinion

Herewith, a list of pleasant things to do in this fair weather before the holiday-weekend hordes arrive.

Good for what ails you: Fran Lebowitz and David Letterman in the 1980s.

Looking for what’s real beneath the sensationalism of the Fabulous Hamptons.

A bill passed in April and now waiting to be signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul would ban a chemical food additive used to make bagels — and pizza crust — chewy and more stretchable. 

Developers trying to get one over on the town is nothing new, but how a Montauk project of this size got past officials has not been explained.

Despite the depopulation, urban blight, and rats, Baltimore does have a particular and piquant charm.

Maria Taylor and the boys of “NBA Showtime” redeem the pro hoops viewing experience.

This is a good time to talk about rejection in all its forms, social, romantic, academic, and work.

East Hampton Town police will join Suffolk County and East Hampton Village in equipping officers with a small but potent lifesaving tool: EpiPens.

Geography is fungible.

I’m not a lazy person, but if you have happened to drive past my house over the last two or three years you might think a couch potato lived within.

Nothing short of a solar revolution is underway, with cheaper and more accessible options, and yet the citizens of the United States have been left almost completely in the dark about it.

In troubled times, there’s always comics.

The push for academic success produces far too much distress in high school students. Here are a few ideas for reducing it.

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.”

A walk in Promised Land State Park offers a chance to reflect on how the fish oil business once thrived there.

Are any of you as stumped as I am about what to daydream about now that we are no longer young?

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.”

When a congressional committee led by Frank Church exposed our government’s widespread intelligence abuses.

Here is a simple solution to solving the affordable housing problem in East Hampton while preventing our businesses from dying.

In our sixth decade and beyond, we no longer bounce when we hit the ground.

Time to talk about candy again!

What’s in a neighborhood?

Does anyone need 20 kinds of deodorant?

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.

It all started with the Surf Lodge.

Some of the most fateful rides of my life were on the L.I.R.R.