Times Editorials
The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Opinion: The less-discussed but very important measure in Trump’s terrible bill
Journalist Michael Kinsley once defined a political gaffe as when a politician inadvertently speaks the truth. On Tuesday morning, Vice President JD Vance posted a classic of the form on the social platform X, part of an attempt during an all-night effort to get the Senate, a chamber his party controls by a comfortable margin, to pass President Donald Trump's misbegotten domestic policy agenda.
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Opinion: From ‘obliteration’ to ‘enemies within’ — Trump’s language echoes authoritarianism
When President Donald Trump declared that the U.S. strikes "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program, it wasn't just a policy claim -- it was an exercise in narrative control.
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Opinion: Chattanooga Democrats need a Mamdani-style politics
In a stunning upset to many political pundits and pollsters alike, New York state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist, defeated former state Gov. Andrew Cuomo to become the presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City.
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Opinion: The Republican budget bill is extreme on immigration, too
The very name of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is both silly and revealing.
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Opinion: A stunning and tragic Supreme Court decision
The Supreme Court on Friday dealt a grievous blow to separation of powers by holding that federal courts cannot issue nationwide injunctions to halt unconstitutional actions by the president and the federal government.
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Opinion: Heat domes, wildfires, floods and drought. Where’s the outrage?
As I write this, the temperature is climbing past 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the mid-Atlantic states, and 170 million Americans are under warnings about a dangerous combination of intense heat and humidity. Is this latest weather extreme linked to global warming? Of course it is, as has been the case with record-setting floods, extreme hurricanes, droughts and wildfires that go back decades and afflict every corner of the globe. Amid these extremes, we have the Trump administration seemingly trying to roll back or reverse every environmental initiative of the past 55 years. Yet nobody seems to care.
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Opinion: Farewell to the US as the world’s top science nation
When I asked John Savage, the retired co-founder of the Department of Computer Science at Brown University, what the essential ingredient in research is, he responded with one word: "Passion."
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Opinion: Our climate policy is backward
After a rainy few weeks, summer is finally here in Chattanooga, as a blistering heat wave has brought temperatures to the upper 90s in the area over the past week.
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Opinion: The United States v. Iran — what’s next?
About 12 hours before my deadline last weekend, this column was overtaken by events.
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Opinion: The president praises the military, but cuts care for veterans
Regardless of their advisability, legality, or ultimate utility in the long sordid history of Middle East conflict, the American military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities last weekend gave Donald Trump an opportunity to compliment someone other than himself.