Times Editorials
The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Times Opinion: What hellscape does Tennessee’s GOP supermajority have in store for us?
We're midway into January, and that means it's time for another state legislative session in Nashville.

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Times Opinion: Will anyone take on Weston Wamp?
It's now 2026. In the world of politics, that means there will be a close eye on the November midterms for Congress over the next several months as the primary season heats up, and as each party positions itself to put forth the best candidate for these pivotal elections.

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Times Opinion: Servile Sheriff Garrett is doing ICE’s dirty work
We all saw the video: the tragic killing of an American in Minneapolis at the hands of a cowardly masked Gestapo agent — or ICE officer, as they prefer to call themselves.

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Times Opinion: Enterprise South reversal shows us the power of collective action
A quarter way through the 21st century, we live in what has become an immensely complicated society — a pivotal moment with an uncertain future.

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Times Opinion: In Tennessee and elsewhere, GOP’s rural health fund amounts to crumbs
One of the more pressing problems plaguing our health care system is the limited resources available to rural hospitals. Tennessee is no exception.

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Times Opinion: In Venezuela, Trump is doing his own Iraq — but even dumber this time
It took only three days into the new year for President Donald Trump to continue the unmitigated mayhem of 2025, to further shame the country and the Constitution he swore to protect and defend.

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Times Opinion: In 2026, let’s embrace a politics of hope
2025 has come and gone. In the world of politics, it was a year dominated, amid the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, by a bombardment of negative news cycles and the further descent into American authoritarianism.

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Times Opinion: Being white means you never have to say you’re sorry
I must admit, I've never been apologetic about having been born white.

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Times Opinion: A bigger European Union must be a better one, too
Does the European Union — 27 states, 450 million people, politically fractious even in the best of times — need to expand even more? The answer, in the European way, is a qualified and equivocal yes.

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Times Opinion: Tennessee’s GOP supermajority could further rig the game
As numerous election cycles over the past few decades have shown, Tennessee, to its own detriment, is a ruby red Republican stronghold — but that power is much more entrenched than it should be.
