Long Island Opinion & Commentary
Nassau County and Suffolk County editorials, columns, guest essays, cartoons, letters and more.
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Vaccine guidance has changed. The facts have not.
Vaccines are safe and and get years of extensive clinical trials.
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Snow helps keep memories aglow
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Shore up the State Library's foundation
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What going to Auschwitz taught me
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Why Hochul's auto insurance push stands out
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Amid AI, we need to teach value of vulnerability
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The Point
A moment in time that changed my childhood
There it was, that majestic-looking space shuttle on its launchpad.
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Smear attempt incenses gun rights backers
One person's agitator is another's peaceful protester.
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A chance encounter, a flood of memories
A fellow diner asked whether I might be Michael Dobie.
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Cartoons
Commentary
The problem isn't apathy. It's about teaching students where power lives
Young people can become powerful defenders of American democracy.
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Vaccine guidance has changed. The facts have not.
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Boosting your brain with a chip carries a price
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Even tech skeptics can cheer AI's promise in decoding the 'dark genome'
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Snow helps keep memories aglow
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More Opinion
Can the Forks reset the table for Suffolk Democrats?
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Free speech needs a reset in America
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Political and economic pressures set up a health care shift in 2026
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Shore up the State Library's foundation
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Homeless face perilous cold
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Views of autism, LI's Jesse Findling, bird feeders
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A moment in time that changed my childhood
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Blakeman and his man in Budapest?
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There's one state in America with no voter registration. How does that work?
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The problem with that 'Great Healthcare Plan'
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Local colleges pave the path to a dream
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What going to Auschwitz taught me
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Smear attempt incenses gun rights backers
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Trump's feds need to back off Minnesota now
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Alex Pretti's death takes a toll on Suozzi, LI delegation
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Go ahead and resent boomers but for the right reasons
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The 10 best and worst U.S. foreign policy decisions
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Musings: Why gray can speak to autistic voices
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Musings: Be careful out there on roads
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Musings: Backyard cafe now closed
A chance encounter, a flood of memories
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Speeding kills. LIers need to slow down.
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Why Hochul's auto insurance push stands out
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Will NY become a petri dish for measles?
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Protesting ICE and coping with LIRR
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With perpetual redistricting, voters lose
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Nassau GOP reaches out to freshman legislator
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AI's greatest challenge is managerial, not technological
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America's Davos climbdown shows humiliation has its limits
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Amid AI, we need to teach value of vulnerability
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., New York's pushback on ICE
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New LIRR ticket policies are off track
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Police groups to flex their influence
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NIFA seeks county assessment system audit
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Raiding your 401(k) to buy a house should be an option
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Greenland situation is absurd
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Heavy hand ripping our social fabric
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Trying to grab Greenland won't help the U.S.
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Let's talk about affordability on Long Island
Why did Anne Donnelly skip Nassau swearing-in event?
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Congress and Trump could both get behind this concrete step to cut housing costs
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Students with disabilities left behind, 50 years after IDEA
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Electricity costs, Blakeman, abortion, Greenland
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9/11 responders deserve better
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Musings: Want to get a REAL ID? Try my mom's labyrinth
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Musings: This isn't the hamlet I know
Musings: Give me my 2 cents' worth
Trees as property are like no other
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An unaffordable, untenable landscape for young LIers
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The push for lower U.S. drug prices uses bad logic
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