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Letter: Single-payer system would be better

Reader letters to Newsday for Monday, April 22, 2019.

• Editorial Editorial: Crack down on MTA contractors

  Make Siemens pay for shoddy work.

  6:00 AM
• Commentary Opinion: Helping to save the Great South Bay

  The opening of the inlet at Gilgo Beach would improve water quality in the bay.

  6:00 AM
• Commentary Opinion: Who saved Notre Dame? Its builders.

  What our forebears built together -- stone upon stone laid by many hands over centuries -- may just outlast us mortals still.

  4/21/19
• Opinion Opinion: See Matt Davies' latest cartoon

  See Matt Davies' latest Newsday cartoon by clicking above.

  4/15/19
• Michael Dobie Dobie: A blurry question: When does life end?

  The temporary revival of pig brains in a lab creates scientific and ethical issues.

  4/21/19
• Commentary Opinion: We shouldn't celebrate falling birth rates

  Whatever problems we face in the future, it is human ingenuity that will need to rise to the occasion.

  4/20/19
• Commentary Opinion: What does the U.S. owe for its gains from slavery?

  In activist circles, in publications like The Atlantic, in the halls of both academe and Congress, the topic is as perennial as daffodils and cherry blossoms.

  4/20/19
• Commentary Opinion: Sanders needs Fox News to court Trump voters

  The biggest challenge for Sanders in winning back Trump-Sanders voters is that Trump is delivering for these forgotten Americans.

  4/20/19
• Editorial Editorial: Earth Day 50 — the new challenge

  In the early days of 1969, a massive oil spill from a drilling rig off ...

  4/20/19
• Letters Letters: Readers react to the Mueller report

  Reader letters to Newsday for Sunday, April 21, 2019.

  4/19/19
• Opinion Essay: Grateful for the return of the eagle

  On a fishing trip off Eaton’s Neck perhaps 10 years ago, I steered my 20-foot ...

  4/19/19