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GOP lawmakers likely to file ethics complaint against state's top judge
The Point is Newsday Opinion's daily newsletter inside the local, city and state political scenes.
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Health care can't be the only job in town. But it is
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Trump's Iran war will compound his affordability woes
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Musings: Bridge ideas threaten Long Island identity
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NY needs to pop the hood on car insurance rates
Shine brighter spotlight on how rates are set and how companies' premiums compare.
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Trump should dispel his fog of war
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Why do we tolerate lead in school drinking water?
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A complex, opaque IDA tale
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Trump must explain U.S. objectives in Iran
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For a middle class LI family, child care's such a struggle
Half our income goes to child care for our 3-year-old and 1-year-old twins.
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Here's why closed primaries must go
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Climate threat too often lost in the fog
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The costs and chaos of Trump's tariffs
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With AI, what's the use of a college education?
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Rep. Suozzi: ICE adding dozens of immigration lawyers isn't routine
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The Point
Do you feel queasy about AI yet?
The technology races ahead and its influence grows, as leaders don't deal with it.
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Messing with Texas maps faces the test
Could an attention-getting House gerrymander become a "dummymander"?
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Iranian dissident rejoices at Khamenei's fall
Journalist Masih Alinejad has paid a difficult personal price for her activism.
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Cartoons
Commentary
Health care can't be the only job in town. But it is
What happens when health care openings start drying up?
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Trump's Iran war will compound his affordability woes
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Here's why closed primaries must go
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Prediction markets shouldn't be so easy to play
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Americans' relationship with gas prices is complicated
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Why do we tolerate lead in school drinking water?
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Messing with Texas maps faces the test
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Supporting housing projects is crucial
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East Hampton Dems in family feud
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The U.S. has enough missiles for this war but not the next one
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Iran war cartoons
The Iran war is dialing U.S. economic danger up to 11
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DHS funding, surgeon general nomination
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A complex, opaque IDA tale
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Readers react to U.S. attack on Iran
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Control-of-the-House suspense shifts from NYC to LI
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Washington can help families without spending more
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The U.S. has to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible
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Musings: SAVE Act will kill turnouts
Musings: Where books still flirt with curious minds
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Musings: Try compassion when anger fails
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Iranian dissident rejoices at Khamenei's fall
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Killing an enemy leader often escalates conflict and chaos
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With Rabinowitz out at NUMC, who will be the new board chair?
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El Niño is returning with another stark warning
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Crunching the numbers on the affordability crisis
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Trump must explain U.S. objectives in Iran
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When a change in perspective does the trick
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Tariff mess Trump's to clean up
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A Supreme Court shield for Big Oil would come at your expense
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Casey Means lacks the right stuff to be America's top doctor
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The costs and chaos of Trump's tariffs
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Bridge hole exposes bigger problem
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Snowplowing issues ignite a storm
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4 years in, Ukraine has won by surviving
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See Matt Davies' latest cartoon
What adults get wrong about girls and autism
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The war in Albany over the cost of auto insurance
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Why young men are abandoning Trump
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Disappointing step back on stalled land
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With AI, what's the use of a college education?
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Student absenteeism, driver's license suspensions
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Blakeman's burden is a heavy one
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Democratic voter enrollment dwindles on LI as 'blanks' rise
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Race is the elephant in the room of U.S. foreign policy
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Factories can come back to the U.S. Jobs, not so much.
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Looking to up quality of what's often a slog
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Zeldin, Trump and EPA; students as civic teachers
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Storm prep meets cooperation
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Garbarino's plus one tonight is Jesse Garcia
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Corporate America's new slogan: Make more, pay less
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Bad economics isn't necessarily unconstitutional
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Court's ruling on tariffs, DHS shutdown, kids misbehaving
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Patel's dismissal grows overdue
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The Suffolk seat shuffle
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