Times Editorials
The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Times Opinion: Can Anna Golladay beat the gerrymander?
Anna Golladay, who announced her candidacy over the weekend to represent Chattanooga in the U.S. House, may be running against incumbent Rep. Chuck Fleischmann on paper — but her true opponent is an arbitrary line drawn roughly in the shape of an hourglass, a political border that makes it nearly impossible for a Democrat to be elected to represent Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District.
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Times Opinion: PSA for Super Bowl Sunday — The NFL is a rotten institution
While baseball may be considered America's national pastime, no other sport grabs our attention quite like football.
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Times Opinion: Term limits aren’t all they’re cracked up to be
Even in a political era as polarized as ours, there is, among both Republicans and Democrats, at least one point of agreement immune to this partisanship: No one likes the people elected to represent us.
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Times Opinion: On immigration, local leaders are tying their own hands
When we think of the political process, more often than not, we picture the voting booth, where ballots are cast every few years to elect our leaders. Or the dimly lit halls of power — city hall, the statehouse, the U.S. Capitol — where the mundane job of governing takes place.
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Times Opinion: In Tennessee and the South, the small-government agenda has always been a con job
In this country, in the supposed land of the free, there's hardly anything we love more — or so we claim — than small-d democratic control, especially locally. But this ideal is an illusion, a convenient tool full of contradictions used by nefarious forces to exert autocratic power.
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Times Opinion: Bo Watson’s got-mine, get-yours economy
It's tax season, the time of year when all of us must sort out how much we owe as payment for the benefits we reap under the social contract — or as some would lead you to believe, how much of your hard-earned dollars Uncle Sam is stealing from your wallet.
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Times Opinion: The immigration issue is a manufactured pretext for ethnic cleansing
Anyone who's followed the political ascendancy of President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement over the past decade should know that this corrosive force has a proclivity for manufacturing absurd pretexts to justify its authoritarian agenda.
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Times Opinion: The dividing line between the old and new of the Hamilton County GOP
The modern Republican Party, overtaken by the anti-liberal, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-immigrant, anti-DEI — anti-anything, really — MAGA movement, is, of course, against any semblance of pluralistic political opposition within the Democratic Party.
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Times Opinion: In North Georgia and beyond, moderation is no longer representative
Within the Democratic Party, there is an identity crisis.
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Times Opinion: Minnesota is the model for resistance to ethnic cleansing in Tennessee
With a force of 3,000 armed federal agents swarming its streets, Minneapolis, by the order of President Donald Trump's government, is under a military occupation.
