Editorials
The latest Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, including Free Press Editorials and Times Editorials.
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Free Press Opinion: Trump’s Ukraine policy is succeeding while his Iran policy flails
One of the many ironies of Donald Trump's war against Iran is that only a year ago, most of the president's critics assumed that any second-term crisis for the American empire would be caused not by reckless war-making but by appeasement and retreat.
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Free Press Opinion: Hecklers still a problem for free speech on college campuses
If you're afraid to let your opponent talk, you probably aren't winning the debate. But it's also hard to win the war of ideas when your audience can't hear you.
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Times Opinion: Who is more likely to fall for fake news?
We don't need a study to know that the internet is awash in propaganda, AI slop and outright lies.
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Times Opinion: In new AI law, GOP sees itself as the sole arbiter of human rights
With the advent of artificial intelligence, especially AI chatbots, numerous issues with the technology pose great social and political harms: diminished academic integrity, environmental degradation from power-intensive AI data centers, deepfake political advertisements and so on.
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Free Press Opinion: New athletics rule gives school district an opportunity to think about changes
The landscape of public education is shifting.
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Times Opinion: There are better ways to prevent a nuclear Iran
Republicans often rely on a handy set of allegations: Democrats want open borders; Democrats want to defund the police; Democrats want men in women's sports.
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Times Opinion: Tennessee redistricting plan doesn’t serve the people
I strongly oppose Gov. Bill Lee's special session proposal for a mid-decade, gerrymandered redistricting of Tennessee's nine congressional seats.
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Free Press Opinion: Debt? What debt? Who is monitoring the debt?
People of a certain age will recall a lyric from the Tennessee Ernie Ford song "Sixteen Tons": "Another day older and deeper in debt."
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Free Press Opinion: With Supreme Court cover, lawmakers will reengineer Tennessee districts — because they can
Tennessee legislators will begin meeting today in a special session of the General Assembly to rejigger the state's nine congressional districts -- because they can.
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Times Opinion: Homelessness in Chattanooga is the fault of us all, not the individual
Whenever social crises become too visible to ignore, there's an enticing temptation to lay the blame on the victim instead of pointing to the true culprit: an inequitable system of governance that routinely fails to respond to issues of public concern. This is perhaps most apparent when it comes to the worsening issue of homelessness.
