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I didn’t have a disability. Our institutions do.

After watching a boring sci-fi movie, I stared at the blinking orange hand signal outside the Lynbrook movie theater, waiting to cross heavily trafficked, four-lane Peninsula Boulevard. more

By Cristina Arroyo Rodriguez | 11/25/21

Year of wonder, one Thanksgiving to the next

Last Thanksgiving we dined alone. I’m remembering an over-roasted turkey leg with a side of anxiety for me . . . more

11/25/21

Recalling two failed coups that will live in infamy

"The Event,” a 2015 found-footage documentary by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, opens with black-and-white images of mostly men marching in August 1991 through the streets of Leningrad . . . more

11/25/21

This Thanksgiving, give what you can

This Thanksgiving is shaping up to be one of the most difficult in a long time for many Long Island families who were adversely affected by the economic calamity brought on by the pandemic. more

By Randi Shubin Dresner | 11/18/21

Slavery on L.I.: We should talk about it in school

I recently joined five Long Island high school students for a visit to the Joseph Lloyd Manor in Lloyd Harbor, the 18th-century site where many enslaved people of African descent lived. more

By Elaine Gross | 11/18/21

Sticks and stones — words can never harm me

You cannot burn a book in 2021. You can burn the paper and the ink and the cardboard, but in our world of e-books, you cannot ever kill the words and ideas that an author created. more

11/18/21

Political mischief while you’re sleeping

To the relief of many in the political world, the 2021 elections are behind us. Whether your candidate won or lost . . . more

11/18/21

A famed journalist enlightens us on cancer reporting

It’s rare that you get the chance to meet your professional heroes, so when one of mine recently came to Hofstra . . . more

11/11/21

To sleep, perchance to pop awake again

In my hopeful search for common ground between the political and cultural forces of the far right and the far left, I have pretty much come up empty. Until now. more

11/11/21

The winning strategy? GOP grass-roots campaigning.

If Election Day 2021 proved anything, it’s that Long Island voters shouldn’t be taken for granted. more

By Ronald J. Rosenberg | 11/11/21

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