Opinion

The Trump administration has declared all-out war on higher education, and America’s role as the world leader of scientific and medical progress is at stake.

Willie’s Roadhouse has a new fan.

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.

A feisty young Jewish woman from New Jersey, Helen S. Rattray became the editor and publisher of The Star after her first husband, Everett Rattray, died in 1980 at the age of 47.

A tale of intense culture shock, of seeing America anew.

The present town board may believe that any project it devises is benign, but the members fail to understand that a future board could misuse the relaxation of rules having to do with community-centered projects.

A “Minecraft” movie might sound unwatchable, but the phenomenon of teenage audience participation it has spurred is most welcome.

The mysterious pull of a struggling Southern Tier downtown and its one-of-a-kind hotel.

For 30 years my life and my brother’s did not cross, despite good reasons to reconnect. And then it all changed.

The East Hampton Town Planning Board made the right move recently by demanding additional study of a planned 50-unit industrial park in Wainscott.

I have always been a do-it-yourselfer, even about food.

Pondering this week where I’d stash my cash, apropos of the possibly pending global financial collapse, the strategy of parking money in companies that manufacture small indulgences seems about right.

What happens to our data when a company changes hands is just one of many good questions in this age of digital Big Brother. Too bad public indifference is so widespread.

It is a national challenge. In many places, there are simply too many people competing for too few affordable places to live, and nowhere worse than on the South Fork.

The pleasure and practicality of a loaner.

What happens when loss is slow, the goodbye extended? Is it something to treasure or to dread?

The osprey is a kind of modern-day phoenix, risen from the ashes of near-extermination.

Zaire had attracted me for what I perceived as its perch on the knife edge between order and chaos. I had sought a challenge.

All the way to Florida and back it was my daughter, Nettie, who led me in the right direction, not the other way around.

The Hands Off! protest on Saturday in front of Town Hall may start small, but it may also be the start of something big.

Public media is one of the greatest cultural assets this country has. Cue the congressional show trial.

At the Byron Young Fish Passage.

My husband and I took long, life-affirming cycling trips, until one day everything changed.

After 25 years in which no major investments were made at the Montauk School, the district’s school board will put a $38 million bond on the May ballot, seeking community approval to bring the aging facility into the modern era.

The Washington dipsticks who discussed apparently classified United States military planning on an unsecure chat app before a March 15 attack on Yemen’s Houthi militants must not have been familiar with teenagers.

One of the superstitions I have acquired with age is that I do believe houses and belongings acquire something from the generations who have been there before.

Behold gastronomic glory — the Rochester garbage plate.

Scientists have discovered a new pill that will do away with both toothpaste and toothbrushes, not to mention human agency altogether.

The American culture wars have become our own cultural revolution, censorship with a whimper, not a bang.

At long last, the East Hampton Town Board is expected to reduce the cap on houses relative to the size of a given piece of land.