Times Editorials
The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Opinion: The ‘deport them all’ playbook doesn’t match public opinion
For more than a decade, President Donald Trump has been scapegoating immigrants, decrying them as criminals and vermin and vowing to deport them by the millions.
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Republicans do not serve our interests
Republicans do not serve our interests
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Opinion: RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel is turning misinformation into policy
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's dismantling of Americans' trust in -- and ultimately, access to -- vaccines isn't happening with one sweeping policy that grabs the public's attention. It's unfolding quickly and quietly, in bland conference rooms where hand-picked appointees make decisions that will have far-reaching consequences for our health.
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Opinion: The GOP is a death cult
For all the GOP's talk of leading this nation to newfound success, to some type of national rebirth, the MAGA movement led by President Donald Trump seems to promote one thing above all: death.
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The Rant
So Chuck was a "yes' on the Big, Beautiful Bill? Why is that "news"? He has been a yes man from jump.
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Opinion: This July 4th, celebrate the ‘land that I love’
I love celebrating July 4 by singing the famous song, "God Bless America." Recently, I asked a young friend if he knew that song. He immediately started humming the tune, and we ended up happily singing it together. Then I asked him if he knew who wrote it. He had no idea, but knew the song because "God Bless America" is sung at baseball games. Irving Berlin, who wrote 1,000 famous songs, claimed that this song is one of lifelong gratitude. Not surprising since his Jewish family emigrated from Siberia/Russia, and Berlin began his career singing for pennies as a child on the streets of Brooklyn.
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Opinion: Reasons to celebrate July 4th
Every Fourth of July, Erwin Knoll, the late editor of The Progressive magazine, would host a party. He'd grill burgers and brats and tack copies of the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights to trees in his backyard in Madison, Wis.
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Opinion: In the halls of Congress and on the canals of Venice, the new Gilded Age has a moment
The juxtaposition at the weekend was apt: one big, ugly bill in Washington and one big, garish wedding in Venice.
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Commentary: Thom Tillis knew what the GOP refused to hear
On Tuesday, Republican Sen. Thom Tillis became one of only three GOP senators to cast a vote against President Donald Trump's budget bill.
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Opinion: A reckless judicial nomination puts the Senate to the test
Republicans in the Senate may be on the verge of their most consequential capitulation to President Donald Trump so far -- and I am not talking about the deficit-busting "big, beautiful bill."