Opinion

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Science should drive medical decisions.

Reluctantly checking in with the new N.B.A.

When we hear governments complain about violations of sovereignty, we must ask whose sovereignty is really being defended — and whose interests.

It is important to ask now how this clearing in Sag Harbor happened. One thing that could help prevent a similar outcome in the future is more village involvement.

It is unlikely that East Hampton is going to have food delivered by robot any time soon, but I wouldn’t rule it out.

The front of my house is a disgrace.

Bestirred by televised yule log nostalgia.

Saying goodbye to the painter Connie Fox, who died in East Hampton in 2023.

An idea making the rounds in Town Hall to change the way farmland construction projects are reviewed may have value, but a degree of caution is necessary.

Stephen Miller and others in the White House have cast their bet that stirring up race-based hatred among voters is the only hope if the extreme right is to maintain its grip on Washington.

We are warming to an increasing trend on the South Fork scene toward quieter and cozier gatherings and outings on New Year’s Day.

It is fascinating to see how a tragic event 200 years ago helped advance science.