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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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.

• 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.

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• 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.

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• Editorial Editorial: Earth Day 50 — the new challenge

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

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• Opinion Opinion: See Matt Davies' latest cartoon

  See Matt Davies' latest Newsday cartoon by clicking above.

  4/15/19
• Letters Letters: Readers react to the Mueller report

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

  4/19/19
• Letters Just sayin': Honor for officers who died post-9/11

  Newsday readers sound off on local issues.

  4/19/19
• Commentary Opinion: Mueller report is a blueprint for Congress

  Mueller has produced a road map for new congressional investigations.

  4/19/19
• Commentary Opinion: China can make a difference in Venezuela

  Our goal is for Venezuela to be a stable nation once again, a source of prosperity that ensures security to investors and that fulfills its commitments.

  4/19/19
• Commentary Opinion: Fears of Columbine still fresh

  Mass shootings and school shootings -- and the ubiquitous threat of them -- create trauma that splinters out well beyond the victims, and the families and friends who must forever cope with loss.

  4/19/19
• Commentary Opinion: Portrait of an untrustworthy presidency

  But the report is also an episodic portrait of the administration, and what it shows is a president who is untrustworthy, who has untrustworthy advisers and whose advisers do not respect him.

  4/19/19
• Editorial Editorial: Mueller makes his case

  His voluminous report reveals President Trump's disturbing efforts to derail the probe, and it compels congressional scrutiny and legal reform.

  4/18/19