Times Editorials
The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Times Opinion: In this political moment, Tennessee Democrats need unity — not division
As the local Republican Party has solidified political power, the Hamilton County Democratic Party is in turmoil, facing the crisis that is right-wing public policy amid a slew of resignations within local Democratic leadership.
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Times Opinion: In Hamilton County schools, anti-DEI push is about exerting power, not merit
Informing the right-wing push to dismantle practices promoting diversity, equity and inclusion is the notion that these policies, meant to work against both implicit and explicit racism, are themselves somehow racist — a reverse racism that supposedly compromises merit-based values that ensure competency in key institutions.
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Times Opinion: There’s only one way to reduce traffic congestion
For many Chattanoogans and other residents in our larger region, far too much precious free time is spent behind the wheel, idly sitting in five o'clock traffic.
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Times Opinion: Here’s how the affordability rhetoric can translate into meaningful policy in Tennessee
In the unserious realm that is U.S. and Tennessee politics, we've become all too accustomed to hollow political rhetoric that fails to deliver on its electoral promises.
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Times Opinion: Bring the leftward electoral shift to local politics
2025 has been dominated by the chaos imposed by the administration of President Donald Trump.
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Opinion: Even in ruby red Tennessee, affordability drives a wedge into the MAGA coalition
Tennessee's special election in Nashville for Congress has come and gone, and as an intensely gerrymandered district tends to produce in the GOP-dominated South, the Republican Party came out on top — but not nearly by the typical margin.
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Opinion: The authoritarian rationale behind book bans
At the heart of the far right's authoritarian project lies numerous contradictions: a small-government agenda that seeks to illegalize abortion and bodily autonomy, a push for meritocracy that ensures the least qualified hold power, a populist economic appeal that asks the least from the rich and demands the most from the poor.
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Opinion: The slog that is D.C. politics matters in Chattanooga
Nearly a year into President Donald Trump's second term, there are many unflattering terms one could use to describe the state of politics in Washington, D.C.
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Opinion: Tennessee’s first test of the affordability strategy
Tennessee's 7th congressional district — reliably conservative, both historically and in recent decades — is now somehow up for grabs.
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Opinion: Marjorie Taylor Greene and the crisis of political conviction
MAGA has laid waste to its latest political victim.
