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: Every state should pass medical aid-in-dying law

It's heartbreaking to watch a dying person being robbed of this compassionate option because false assumptions guide our policymaking.

• Commentary Opinion: Breast-feeding isn't free. This is what it costs.

  Insisting on the "breast is free" mantra is deceiving and unfair.

• Commentary Opinion: Is sexual orientation determined at birth? No.

  Even some people who self-identify as gay are rejecting the idea that they were "born that way" -- and the defensiveness of the implied argument, "I'm only like this because I can't help it."

• Commentary Opinion: Don't hurt the ability of elderly to stay healthy

  Our immune systems age along with our bodies, so anything we can do to boost the ability to fight disease should be encouraged.

• Opinion Opinion: See Matt Davies' latest cartoon

  See Matt Davies' latest Newsday cartoon by clicking above.

• Editorial Editorial: A defendant finally gets justice

  Keith Bush's wrongful conviction and incarceration forced Suffolk County to face up to past and present corruption.

• Letters Letters: Abortion debate rises again as source of discord

  Reader letters to Newsday for Sunday, May 26, 2019.

• Letters Letter: Rethink the age of enlistment, too

  Reader letters to Newsday for Sunday, May 26, 2019.

• Letters Letter: Regrets about settling in Suffolk

  Reader letters to Newsday for Sunday, May 26, 2019.

• Commentary Opinion: No one knows how impeachment would turn out

  Nobody knows what the political effects of impeachment will be. Not Pelosi, not Trump, not any Democratic or Republican "strategist" you see on cable news, not any pollster. Nobody.

• Letters Just Sayin': Frustrated with bad roads in Brookhaven

  Newsday readers respond to local and national issues.

• Commentary Opinion: Theresa May's departure solves nothing

  Following a European parliamentary election that saw her Conservative Party crash to historic lows, she has finally thrown in the towel.