Times Editorials
The latest Times Editorials coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Editorials section.
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Opinion: Why can’t Republicans quit Trump?
After starting the year polling almost even with former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis began losing ground in March and continued sinking through the spring. Notably, the decline began before Trump's first indictment. A July Economist/YouGovAmerica poll shows Trump at 49% and DeSantis at 20% in a multicandidate GOP primary, which is similar to the polling averages. A Morning Consult poll released last week has Trump at a hefty 56% and DeSantis at a dismal 17%.
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Opinion: We should acknowledge, rather than deny, our racist past
MAGA Republicans' willingness to gum up the necessary functions of governance was on display last week in the House of Representatives.
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Opinion: Why we should politicize the weather
After officially beginning his presidential campaign, Ron DeSantis was asked about climate change. He brushed the issue aside: "I've always rejected the politicization of the weather."
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Opinion: It’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity: the latest wake-up call on climate change
In the South and Southwest, and most intensely from Southern California to South Florida, a dangerous heat wave has gripped the nation, with 104 million Americans under a heat warning advisory.
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Opinion: The House GOP bomb-throwers may end up bombing their majority
Some days, Speaker Kevin McCarthy must look out over his House conference in awe and think: Are you maniacs trying to lose us the majority?
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Opinion: Disasters like the California landslide are foreseeable; the warnings are all around us
A slow-motion disaster happened last week as houses collapsed into a canyon in Rolling Hills Estates, a city in L.A. County. But to scientists who study the geology and climate changes behind this landslide, things seem to be happening all too quickly.
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Opinion: Rooting out fraud of federal COVID-19 relief funds
Three years after the deadly pandemic brought the United States to a screeching halt — shutting down businesses, industries, government offices, schools and much of daily life as we had known it — memories of how terrible those days were have begun to fade a little.
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Opinion: Here’s what’s so frightening about the Supreme Court’s latest power trip
A 6-3 conservative supermajority has really put the "supreme" in "Supreme Court," and not in a good way.
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Opinion: Everything’s coming up soft landing
The latest numbers on consumer prices arrived Wednesday, and they were better than even optimists had expected.
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Opinion: Harassing good Samaritans is on brand for Republicans
The Republican war on migrants and asylum seekers has been one of the more successful GOP campaigns of recent years if you measure success by volume of vitriol.
