Long Island Opinion & Commentary
Nassau County and Suffolk County editorials, columns, guest essays, cartoons, letters and more.
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Get your shots, despite troubling silence
The CDC has said little about this year's vaccines against COVID-19, flu or RSV.
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Make sweeping change at NUMC
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Flock delay allows for new regulations
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Congress must meet this Sept. 11 obligation
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Take effective action on massage parlors
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Hugely successful ESA needs protection
The law has protected more than 99% of listed species from extinction. Now it's under attack.
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Getting men to get the help they need
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Musings: Here's a store that made ordinary days special
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Giving in to NY teachers unions — at a high cost
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What AI algorithms can't do for you
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A Navy hero may be marginalized again
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The Point
What if winning the AI race means game over?
In the global competition of the moment, what's on the other side is entirely unclear.
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My fig tree came back, like we all can
We resigned ourselves to its demise, and all seemed lost.
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Fear, reaction lasted through that surreal season
It was a time full of public traumas too secondary to make the main news cycle.
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Cartoons
Commentary
Getting men to get the help they need
I spent years mistaking my own silence for strength. Eventually I was white-knuckling my way through life.
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Hugely successful ESA needs protection
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Trump's push to cut federal jobs lacks a goal and a vision
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The real test of the 2026 midterms comes after the vote
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Musings: Here's a store that made ordinary days special
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More Opinion
Congress must meet this Sept. 11 obligation
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Suffolk $2.1M settlement, mail ballots, EPA rollbacks, financial literacy
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What AI algorithms can't do for you
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Suffolk BOE re-upped ahead of big Dem vote
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The U.S.-Canada rupture is a lesson in declining leadership
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AI may reverse political polarization. Don't get excited yet
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A Navy hero may be marginalized again
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Lyme disease, hiking guides, women's success, NUMC, more
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Take effective action on massage parlors
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The Blakeman factor in NY House races
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Healthcare costs have small businesses in an impossible bind
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Vance's childcare plan pits parents against each other
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Battery storage feeds into affordability
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Housing in Suffolk, smell of marijuana, cutting school district costs
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An LIRR to Jersey and back again?
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3rd-party candidate stirs up Hempstead Town race
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Anthropic's AI apocalypse warning is much too weak
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Trump's 'little war' with Iran just got a lot bigger
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Musings: A messy founding history yielded a lasting nation
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Musings: On board a bus toward history
Musings: CDs shine for those we lost
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My fig tree came back, like we all can
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Stop Trump's midterm meddling
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AI is killing the app economy and building its successor
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Readers mourn lives lost on 9/11, 25 years later
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9/11 is still reshaping our lives
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Fear, reaction lasted through that surreal season
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Suffolk Dems not writing off county clerk's race
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The U.S. is running out of weapons. Blame Congress
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Can we recreate the spirit of 9/12?
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Suffolk needs all kinds of housing
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Social media rules, AI for kids, clean water, FEMA, Canada tariffs
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Countdown to Suffolk Dems' leadership clash
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What we learned about AI last week should terrify all of us
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With Trump, the trivial things do matter
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Donald Trump cartoons
Cartoons of the week
Stu Rabinowitz has a surprising new gig
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Send in your questions for candidates ahead of midterms
Green energy is taking over red Texas' power grid
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Painful anti-Muslim rhetoric continues apace
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The Fed's credibility depends on resisting politics, not playing it
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Long Islanders remember September 11
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Readers' reflections on September 11
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Schools must grade caring just like they do academics
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Splashing through so many years of backyard joy
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Remembering 9/11 without being consumed
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25 years since 9/11, what have we learned?
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Don't let Washington confuse you about vaccines
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Ospreys and bunker, campaign politics, tax breaks for builders
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Graduation standards, New York State economy, Penn Station problems
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Musings: This Catholic school empowered its girls
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The AI threat, plan to limit voting, Dylan Skolnick ouster, Navy hero Doris Miller
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Suffolk $2.1M settlement, mail ballots, EPA rollbacks, financial literacy
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Lyme disease, hiking guides, women's success, NUMC, more
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