Times Editorials
The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Opinion: Anti-vaccination is part of the right’s anti-child crusade
Throughout human history, perhaps the greatest foe against our survival has been something microscopic in size but utterly massive in lives claimed: the virus.
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Opinion: Fleischmann fears his constituents
When elected to Congress, part of the deal, of course, is to represent your constituents, to listen and respond to the concerns of the people who put you into power.
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Opinion: Don’t let Christian nationalists hide behind the Bible
We've all heard this argument before. Whenever the religious right — the fringe of the Republican Party — speaks to their exclusive vision for this country, they claim this position is based on the Bible, on a divinely mandated morality.
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Opinion: All the things Trump thinks he owns
The White House does not belong to President Donald Trump.
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Opinion: The right’s disdain for children’s mental health
Being a child, in Chattanooga or elsewhere in Tennessee or the rest of the country, is a difficult thing to navigate, especially in our modern world filled with adversity and negativity previous generations did not encounter.
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Opinion: The obvious solution to mass shootings
For many of today's most divisive political issues, our government's inaction toward addressing them can be attributed to an array of factors, building upon each other throughout years, even decades, until the matter becomes too polarizing to form a governing coalition that seeks an effective resolution.
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Opinion: Trump’s domestic deployments are dangerous. For the military
One of my life's greatest regrets is that I didn't join the Army sooner. I was commissioned at age 37, late for the military, and I didn't exactly impress my officer basic course instructors with my physical prowess. But I made it through, and I spent eight years in the reserves, with active-duty deployments to Iraq and South Korea.
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Opinion: Georgia counties are dying: Data shows ‘God’s Country’ is hollowing out
Every now and then, you see something that's a holy (smokes!) moment. And an old number-crunching author/researcher named Charles Hayslett provided one this time.
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Opinion: Tennessee is the blueprint for GOP national policy
Ever since the Republican Party seized power over Congress and the executive branch, the party has abdicated power to President Donald Trump on tariffs, has passed the "big, beautiful bill," slashing taxes on the wealthy and gutting health care spending. Seemingly, there is no discernible end game when it comes to the GOP's economic policy.
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The Rant
How did those hazers and "hazzees" get into college? Don't you have to have some intelligence to get admitted anymore? Stupid and cruel beyond belief.