Times Commentary
The latest Times Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
More in Times Commentary, page 34
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Times Opinion: The World Cup needs an ICE truce
With the world's largest sporting event, the World Cup, slated to begin in June, the United States should call a truce in the campaign of terror being waged by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies against immigrants and others.
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Times Opinion: After measles outbreak, why are feds keeping Texans in the dark?
For the second time in two years, Texas is experiencing a significant measles outbreak.
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Times Opinion: Health care costs are forcing terrible trade-offs
Earlier this month, as I waited to pick up a prescription at my local CVS, I watched a man leave without his elderly father's medication.
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Times Opinion: When a narcissist goes to war
If you can set aside both the unconstitutionality and the immorality of President Donald Trump's unprovoked war on Iran and focus on the operation itself, it is hard not to be bewildered by its utter lack of real planning, or even basic strategic thinking.
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Times Opinion: Social media platforms aren’t the new cigarettes. They’re worse
A jury in Los Angeles may have just done for social media what early lawsuits did for Big Tobacco. Outside the courtroom, families who said they have lost children to the effects of these platforms gathered in shirts that read "We Are K.G.M.," expressing solidarity with the 20-year-old plaintiff. Wednesday, the jury of the landmark case K.G.M. vs. Meta and Google found the owners of Instagram and YouTube negligent for conduct that raises a question the country is just beginning to grapple with: What if app designs do not merely entail potential hazards, but are created deliberately to be harmful?
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Times Opinion: Supreme Court appears ready to jeopardize how we vote by mail
Last week, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared poised to threaten voting by mail, as Washington and other states do it, during oral arguments in Watson v. Republican National Committee.
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Times Opinion: Our digital lives have hidden costs
Every time we stream a movie, upload photos, send emails or ask artificial intelligence to answer a question, the action feels effortless. The internet appears weightless — floating somewhere in an invisible "cloud."
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Times Opinion: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker shows why he could be a 2028 player
In the world of pre-campaign presidential politics, every little success or failure provides an insight into what might happen when the real race unfolds two years from now.
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Times Opinion: Pediatrician sees impacts of armed conflict on children in Iran and beyond
The children from the Shajareh Tayebeh primary school, a girls' school in Minab, Iran, should have been sitting in classrooms, giggling with their friends and dreaming about recess — not wondering if they would survive that day.
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Deborah Levine: Telling local women’s stories for Women’s History Month
Folks often cite famous women in history as their inspiration during Women's History Month.
