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The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Opinion: MAGA’s insatiable thirst for power
What should be a moment of mourning for the conservative movement — following the assassination of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk two weeks ago — has instead become a moment of retribution and hatred toward MAGA's enemies, both real and perceived.
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Opinion: The undue influence of Moms for Liberty
In July of 2024, the Hamilton County Board of Education, as it had since 2013, unanimously approved its annual contract with Centerstone, a mental health services company that provides supplementary services to students at no cost to the school system.
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Opinion: There’s nothing new about political violence in America
Over the past decade or so, and especially in recent years, there has been a growing chorus of pundits and political commenters identifying an alarmingly rising tide of political violence in our civic society.
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Opinion: School board elections have consequences
Weeks after Republican members of the Hamilton County Board of Education senselessly voted to end supplementary mental health services for students — a contractual arrangement that came at no cost to the school system — the issue came up again at Thursday's school board meeting.
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Opinion: Marsha Blackburn and the MAGA movement rely on fear
For a man who incessantly lies and almost never tells the truth, President Donald Trump, at times, can be brutally honest. Despite the MAGA political movement relying on deception and ignorance, Trump, its leader, will infrequently lift the veil and say the quiet part out loud.
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Opinion: We should be honest about who Charlie Kirk was
In the wake of the death of Charlie Kirk -- the right-wing political activist who was shot and killed in Utah last week -- his followers and supporters across the country are mourning this loss.
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Opinion: Trump’s Memphis military occupation has nothing to do with crime
As part of his authoritarian aspirations, President Donald Trump says he is sending the federal National Guard into Memphis in a supposed effort to tamp down high levels of violent crime in the city. But this is just a pretext.
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Opinion: Anti-DEI isn’t just a red meat issue
Along with the increasing cost of living, accelerated by a post-pandemic inflation boom, and a global anti-incumbency trend, what supposedly led President Donald Trump back to power for a second term are the so-called culture war issues — or its more politically modern characterization: wokeness.
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Opinion: In all its forms, political violence must end
Just as he has for well over a decade, Charlie Kirk, the right-wing firebrand political activist, was on his latest nationwide tour of college campuses to debate political issues with students. His first stop on Wednesday was Utah Valley University.
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Opinion: In Tennessee and Hamilton County, mass deportation is institutional
As with the political right's numerous socially destructive policies — regressive taxation, a limited social safety net, school vouchers — Tennessee is leading the way, showcasing locally what the GOP seeks across the country.
