Opinion

Unique and independent views on the latest local, national and international issues written and selected by the Newsday Editorial Board.

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Editorial: Don't make 9/11 victims beg for more

Both the House of Representatives and the Senate should permanently authorize the compensation fund.

• Editorial Editorial: Expedite plan to reduce jet noise

  The FAA must take steps to quiet the skies, particularly above communities nowhere close to the airport.

• Opinion The Point: Battling it out in Nassau, Queens

  This issue of The Point discusses the Nassau GOP, the Queens DA race and betting on the Democratic primary debates.

• Commentary Opinion: How to put the long-term unemployed back to work

  Even as we close in on full employment, there are people who face steep barriers to labor market entry.

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• Commentary Opinion: Mexico is not the enemy

  History shows it's smarter to recognize our neighbor as a natural ally.

• Commentary Opinion: How moderates can emerge from the shadows

  Maybe the only way moderates can make a splash is to show that socialism is a weight that Trump cannot tie around their necks.

• Letters Letters: New York takes lead on climate change

  Reader letters to Newsday about climate change.

• Commentary Opinion: This judicial nominee deserves a vote

  Gary R. Brown is a qualified choice who would help speed justice in federal court.

• Editorial Editorial: Trump needlessly cruel to immigrants

  Administration should treat kids in custody better; no need to terrify people who are in the U.S. illegally.

• Commentary Opinion: Fallen journalists memorial is a needed reminder

  Every year, hundreds of journalists are attacked, imprisoned and murdered around the world.

• Opinion The Point: Election hype continues to build

  The Point is Newsday's daily opinion newsletter.