Opinion

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.

Adventures in vacation week skiing.

On the evils of Christian nationalism.

For years, I have believed with a fervor that clothes with signs of wear, if not tear, are cool.

It really is too bad for the teenagers of 2025 that thrifting has devolved into such a sad affair, slim pickings and executive prices.

Staring through the plate glass at T. Anthony’s pizzeria in the middle of the Boston University campus and seeing a 19-year-old idiot — me.

Georgia is at a crossroads, and its citizens have taken to the streets in a relentless fight for democracy, freedom, and Euro-Atlantic integration.

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.

If the South Fork of Long Island could have a unifying motto, it might be bigger is better.

The world is a much more mysterious place than you thought it was when you were young and certain.

A thoroughly painful viewing experience.

On earthquakes, literal and artistic, and how art has the power to not just reflect the times, but shape them.

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.”

The Westminster Dog Show may have just concluded with Monty, a giant schnauzer, the overall winner, but every day is dog-show day here.

Have you tried Sleep Jar or the ambient noise function on Alexa? My sleep sounds of choice are wintry and stormy. The chill blast.

Thoughts of Harvey Pekar and life among the files.

Two years have passed since I started my adventure teaching memoir writing behind bars. It’s like group therapy without the therapist.

Immigrant labor has helped keep the Hamptons humming for decades, longer if you go back to the turn of the 20th century and the Irish and Italians who worked on the estates of the oceanfront rich.

It is the story of my life that, post sixth grade, I have pretty much always been on the giver end of the Valentine exchange.

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.

Goodbye to a one-of-a-kind family pet.

Before the fire — memories of an idyllic California childhood.

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.

As stupid as renaming the Gulf of Mexico is, it reminds me of a similar effort of my own right here in East Hampton.

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

You employ the words “cope,” “coping,” or “copium” when another person has expressed feelings and desires clearly but you think their actual argument is feeble.