Times Commentary
The latest Times Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
More in Times Commentary, page 15
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Times Opinion: Let’s remember what we’re celebrating on July 4th
Happy 250th birthday to America and to all my fellow citizens. Let's celebrate!
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Times Opinion: From Ford to Trump — A contrast in anniversary celebrations
What a difference a half century has made.
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Times Opinion: Supreme Court lets Trump govern by decree on TPS
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court last week let President Donald Trump put another nail in the coffin of America's humanitarian asylum program and allowed him to end Temporary Protected Status for some 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians in the country, who could now be sent back to life-threatening conditions abroad.
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Times Opinion: Sticker shock comes suddenly to the Apple store
A week after Apple CEO Tim Cook warned that price hikes for the company's devices were "unavoidable" due to soaring costs in key components, consumers woke up Thursday to just how steep and immediate those increases would be.
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Times Opinion: Beware the hidden risks lurking in property tax cuts
A home that gains value is part of the American dream — except for the taxes. In the past two years, 17 states have lowered or limited property taxes as politicians respond to escalating prices.
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Times Opinion: Don’t let Trump empower Todd Blanche, his modern-day Roy Cohn
"Where's my Roy Cohn?" President Donald Trump famously asked in his first term, angrily despairing at not having an attorney general who'd serve his interests, no holds barred, just as Trump's reptilian mentor and fixer Cohn had done for clients from the notorious red-baiting Sen. Joe McCarthy to New York mob bosses and a young Trump.
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Times Opinion: Graduates cheered Steve Wozniak’s affirmation of humans over AI. Leaders, pay attention
I was seated onstage at Grand Valley State University's commencement when Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak leaned into the microphone and reframed the entire conversation about artificial intelligence in six words.
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Times Opinion: No diplomacy please, we’re American
It has long been clear to anybody outside the die-hard MAGA scene that America First would sooner or later amount to America Alone. And still, the accelerating pace at which President Donald Trump is alienating other nations and isolating his own is breathtaking.
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Times Opinion: No child should live in fear of gun violence
"I felt like a rock." Those were the words of 9-year-old Odai Shanah in a news interview that gained viral attention on social media.
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Times Opinion: Why isolationism is detrimental to America’s Heartland
When Washington debates international alliances, the conversation usually sounds like a corporate ledger sheet. Critics often treat the North Atlantic Treaty Organization like a bad business transaction, complaining that European nations must "cover their own asses" and stop relying so heavily on American military dollars.
