Opinion

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Opinion: Five myths about fast food

As the summer season of road trips and Frosties enters full swing, here are five myths about fast food.

• Commentary Opinion: A turning point against 'rape culture'?

  It's possible that R. Kelly and Jeffrey Espstein arrests signal change.

• Commentary Opinion: If Democrats want to beat Trump . . .

  Here is who they should nominate to run in 2020.

• Editorial Editorial: Let's soar above our divides

  The Apollo 11 mission united us in a time of strife. We need to dream big again.

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• Opinion The Point: To the moon and back to LI

  The Point is Newsday's daily opinion newsletter.

• Commentary Opinion: The benefits of a walkable community are huge

  The benefits of such communities can be enormous -- both personally and professionally.

• Commentary Opinion: On dark side of moon-landing deniers

  Recent polls find that younger generations are far more skeptical about the lunar mission than their older counterparts.

• Letters Just Sayin': Delivery trucks change the quality of life

  Reader letters to Newsday for Saturday, July 20, 2019.

• Commentary Opinion: We are all 'the Squad' now

  President Donald Trump has forced us all to take a position on what kind of America this is going to be

• Commentary Opinion: Ensuring justice in Epstein saga

  Questions raised by the Florida case demand that victims in the NY case be heard.