Free Press Commentary
The latest Free Press Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
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Free Press Opinion: Prediction markets shouldn’t be so easy to play
A great financial economist once tried to convince me that retail investors should not be allowed to buy individual stocks. I strenuously disagreed: Wasn't this America, the country that encourages risk-taking? Why shut regular investors out of the chance to get rich?

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Ron Hart: “War! What is it Good For?” Well, we’ll find out pretty soon.
The United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Iranian military and nuclear sites.

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Free Press Opinion: Getting rogue truckers out from behind the wheel
You may not recognize Karan Singh's name, but you've likely heard of the problem his case exemplifies: workers who entered the U.S. illegally and began driving massive trucks, even if they were clearly unqualified — creating hazardous conditions for everyone on the road.

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Free Press Opinion: AI is proving a 100-year-old prediction true
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes took time out from thinking about the Great Depression to write a charming essay about the "economic possibilities for our grandchildren."

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Free Press Opinion: Trump fulfills his promise
If you wanted to look at it this way, President Trump is keeping his promise to end wars by taking out an Iranian regime that has made war on us and underwritten terrorism throughout the Middle East and the world since its 1979 revolution.

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Free Press Opinion: The U.S. needs to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible
Whether President Donald Trump wins the Third Gulf War will depend a lot on whether the Pentagon can effectively reopen the Strait of Hormuz for oil shipping, and soon. The American military doesn't have weeks to do so — only days.

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Free Press Opinion: If AI is a weapon, who should control it?
Suppose you had to die in a terrible artificial-intelligence-related cataclysm.

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Free Press Opinion: Trump wants Iranians to rise up — will they?
Celebrations broke out across Iran in the wake of U.S. and Israeli strikes over the weekend that killed the country's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and other top officials.

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Free Press Opinion: Can Mamdani’s promises get New Yorkers to think?
France is great.

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Free Press Opinion: Were we reassured on economy after State of the Union?
It's hard to pinpoint when the concept of the State of the Union address jumped the shark.
