Long Island Opinion & Commentary
Nassau County and Suffolk County editorials, columns, guest essays, cartoons, letters and more.
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Powerful election will resonate for years
Getting the country back on track now falls to the new Democratic majorities in Congress and importantly to Republicans as well.
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Election to usher in a new phase
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LIers are turning out. Join them.
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Vote like your rights depend on it
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Attention Albany: IDAs need new rules
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Reset the experience of childhood
We are removing too many moments key to their development, then handing children an environment built around instant gratification.
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LI's housing problem is bigger than mortgage rates
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What Suffolk supers vs. the tax cap shows
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A responsible, necessary voice for New York
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Democracy is on the ballot. We can't look away.
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It's more than houses vs. apartments
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The Point
The perilous irony of NY's measles outbreak
It's taking hold in the very communities who say the state's lack of a religious exemption violates their religious freedoms.
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Blakeman's fate may hinge on his home turf
The situation is less than flattering for him, and Hochul is doing better than '22.
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The astounding costs of our politics
As many Americans struggle, this kind of spending is obscene in comparison.
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Cartoons
Commentary
Maybe a blue Texas is just what the GOP needed
Maybe it's where the GOP can be reborn.
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Reset the experience of childhood
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LI's housing problem is bigger than mortgage rates
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Our children are listening: How to parent through election season
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Anthropic's $100 billion bet is the only market that matters now
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More Opinion
Negative campaigns, saving democracy, voting, wasting water
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Blakeman's turn to try a county-to-state transition
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Nassau County aiming for faster election results
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See Matt Davies' latest cartoon
America is getting a peek at its debt future, and it's scary
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Warsh's AI optimism may box him in at the Fed
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Cleaner trucks, leaf blowers, clergy abuse settlement, more
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Blakeman's fate may hinge on his home turf
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Newsday Opinion endorses Moore for Southampton Town supervisor
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LI judicial races draw big bucks
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A new era of debt doom loops has begun
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The White House will fail to overturn any elections
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Road safety, tax breaks for builders
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What Suffolk supers vs. the tax cap shows
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Newsday Opinion endorses James for New York State attorney general
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An October surprise for Andrew Garbarino
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The political breakdown that dare not speak its name
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Higher airfares are here to stay. That's not a bad thing
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Stop deriding doctors on LI
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Newsday Opinion makes no endorsement for Hempstead Town supervisor
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A responsible, necessary voice for New York
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Democracy is on the ballot. We can't look away.
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Out of the gate, Dems take the lead in early voting
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The U.S.-China tech Cold War is moving undersea
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That grad school loan may cost you. It's about time
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Thinking about beauty, and appreciating it
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The astounding costs of our politics
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Newsday Opinion endorses Hochul for New York State governor
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Newsday Opinion endorses Burroughs for Assembly District 18
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Newsday Opinion endorses Brown for Assembly District 20
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Newsday Opinion endorses Mikulin for Assembly District 17
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Newsday Opinion endorses Griffin for Assembly District 21
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Newsday Opinion endorses Solages for Assembly District 22
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Newsday Opinion endorses Ra for Assembly District 19
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AI agents are coming for your bank's easy money
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Too much AI can stifle innovation
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Newsday Opinion endorses Lavine for Assembly District 13
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Newsday Opinion endorses Tarulli for Assembly District 15
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Newsday Opinion endorses Keiserman for Assembly District 16
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Newsday Opinion endorses O'Pharrow for Assembly District 11
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Newsday Opinion endorses Herskowitz for Assembly District 12
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Newsday Opinion endorses Brooks for Assembly District 14
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The prospects for the hometown candidate this time around
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Partisan gridlock may be red and blue states' least-bad outcome
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If you get kids off their devices, where are they going to go?
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Newsday Opinion's 2026 New York State Assembly election endorsements
Newsday Opinion endorses Schiavoni for Assembly District 1
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Newsday Opinion endorses Slaughter for Assembly District 3
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Newsday Opinion endorses Giglio for Assembly District 2
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Newsday endorses Smith for Assembly District 5
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