Times Commentary
The latest Times Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
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Times Opinion: How to be better stewards of the nation into our fourth century
Of all the wonders that American ingenuity has produced over its first 250 years, perhaps our deepest imprint on modern society was made in Detroit.
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Community Voice: One student’s poetic answer to ‘What is an American?’
What is an American? A question that's age old.
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Times Opinion: How to win the fight against Ebola
When the World Health Organization declared the West African Ebola epidemic a global emergency in 2014, I sat with my wife, Julie, and said aloud what both of us were thinking: People needed to step forward to fight the virus. As an ER nurse, I had the training; I had the experience. If not me, then who?
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Times Opinion: Birthright citizenship ruling was a win for democracy — and a warning about erasing history
This week's narrow Supreme Court decision protecting birthright citizenship is rightly being hailed as a triumph for the American experiment.
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Times Opinion: Happy 250th to a battered but beautiful America
Perhaps the most evocative tune in America's patriotic repertoire, and certainly the most popular, is also among the least understood. Written by Katharine Lee Bates in 1893, "America the Beautiful" will be sung out at countless parades and picnics and parties on the country's 250th anniversary this July 4. Amid divisive times, it offers a hopeful and fitting rejoinder.
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Times Opinion: Homelessness just declined in the US. Trump’s plans will take us backward
In June, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) finally released the long-awaited homelessness numbers for 2025, revealing a 3.3% decrease in overall homelessness between January 2024 and January 2025.
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Times Opinion: The transgender sports decision was about something deeper than law
Read the Supreme Court's recent ruling on transgender athletes — the majority's decision, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and the dissent, written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor — and you will see the court arguing about something more fundamental than the law.
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Deborah Levine: Reflecting on family, freedom and the future on July 4
Approaching July 4, I decided to ask folks what this day meant to them.
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Times Opinion: 19th century reformers made this country more equal, inclusive and strong
"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal."
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Community Voice: Thirty years later, let’s honor 1996 Olympic Whitewater Center lost to fire
Thirty years ago this summer, a coalition of organizations including the U.S. Forest Service, the International Olympic Committee, TVA, the state of Tennessee and Polk County worked tirelessly to prepare the Ocoee River and its Whitewater Center to host canoe and kayaking events for the 1996 Olympic Games.
