Cook: The glass ceiling is a flat screen TV
The Rio Olympics may have been the finest hour in American women's sporting history. The U.S. women won 27 gold medals - nine more than the U.S. men, and eight more than the entire Russian team.
Cook: From one American to another
[Note to readers: this column is meant to be read aloud, preferably in the presence of someone who makes your blood boil. During the next few months, such a person shouldn't be so hard to find.]
Cook: Traumatic stress is changing the brains of children in Chattanooga
I keep thinking of that 5-year-old, the one who dialed 911 after witnessing his mother and father shot to death by a intruder. Do you remember that murderous story? From January?
Cook: Warfare, lynching and the Medal of Honor museum
If a new Medal of Honor museum is built, it should be done hesitatingly, mournfully and without celebration.
Cook: Revenge, where is thy sting?
Last week I was walking through the backyard, looked up and noticed a stream of bees entering and exiting near the roofline of our log cabin, about 15 feet in the air. We'd had carpenter bees before, around the same spot, and I figured they'd returned.
Cook: The most important football game of the season
High school football practice begins this week. For months, they've been lifting off-season weights, running, reviewing film, working up to the best season of their lives.
Cook: Love and July 16
They say Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez - the author and architect of one of worst days in our city's history - was radicalized.
Cook: Coaxing light and goodness out of July 16 tragedy
Love is patient.
Cook: The gift of Pat Summitt from one mother to another
It was 2007. The Lady Vols, undefeated at the time, were headed into December with four straight home games in Knoxville. In Chattanooga, Laurel Moore Zahrobsky, 35 at the time, was headed back to work from maternity leave.
Cook: Britain and the jilting of democracy
This was supposed to be the age of shared humanity.