Times Editorials
The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Opinion: Your end-of-summer politics quiz
Well, people, with Labor Day on the horizon, we really find ourselves in the race-for-the-White-House homestretch. Naturally, I want to see if you've been paying attention:
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Opinion: Flip-flopping is not a new phenomenon
When Kamala Harris first sought the presidency in 2019, she "leaned" left, backing Medicare for All, urging a ban on the oil recovery process known as fracking, praising the "defund the police" movement.
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Opinion: Putin is getting rattled after Kursk
In purely military terms, Ukraine's surprise incursion in Russia this month is a dubious gamble.
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Opinion: Harris making ‘undecideds’ proud to decide
Here is a de facto libretto to help you translate — and maybe even make sense of — the soap opera that has made this year's presidential conventions quite unconventional.
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Opinion: The honeymoon is over; Harris must start making the case for her presidency
In her speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris offered a withering indictment of her opponent that could constitute a case for her candidacy. Donald J. Trump, she rightly observed, is in many ways "an unserious man," but the consequences of returning him to the White House "are extremely serious."
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Opinion: If you didn’t get an extreme-weather alert, you’re alone
With the planet heating up and nature growing more deadly and destructive, new tools to help people gauge their climate risks are landing faster than DVD-sized hail in Texas. But these models still need fine-tuning. For now, a simpler approach might be to just throw a dart at any map of the U.S. Wherever it lands, there's your climate risk.
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Opinion: Harris should fight Trump with a better Bidenomics
Vice President Kamala Harris has begun to set out her economic agenda. Unsurprisingly, her program is shaping up to be Bidenomics 2.0 — which is mostly a good thing. An emphasis on the energy transition and wider economic opportunity is quite right. The question is whether her administration will aim to strengthen the first version or double down on its weaknesses.
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Opinion: Michelle Obama absolutely takes apart Donald Trump
In 2007, a young biracial senator from Illinois named Barack Obama was trying to convince Black voters that he was one of them. I traveled to South Carolina to see a set of speeches that would become a historic inflection point -- Oprah and Michelle Obama code-switching to tell the state's Black Democrats that he was the real deal.
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Opinion: National media finally seeing the light of truth on the country’s economic recovery
It's hard for a lifelong member of the media to be mad at the media.
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Opinion: Russia’s prisoner trade says all you need know about Putin
Take a good look at the lists of prisoners exchanged between Kremlin and the White House. If, after that, you still find yourself admiring President Vladimir Putin for his strength and despising U.S. alliances for their "weak" liberalism, you need help.
