Times Commentary
The latest Times Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
More in Times Commentary, page 35
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Times Opinion: American Muslims’ unique role against anti-US sentiment and Islamophobia
It is not easy to be an American Muslim today.
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Community Voice: Recognizing and using political anger
Few issues elicit near-unanimous agreement from both the political left and right. The virtually universal opinion that political anger permeates our country is one such issue. However, that shared view vanishes like a mirage upon inspection.
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Times Opinion: Remember, and embody, the ‘Greatest Sentence’ during America 250
Only about 100 days remain before America celebrates the 250th anniversary of the United States' Declaration of Independence, the bold and magnificent document created and signed by 56 men — our "Founding Fathers" — declaring independence from Great Britain.
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Times Opinion: Americans are united against Trump’s war
As it turns out, we aren't quite so divided as a nation.
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Times Opinion: PFAS in Northwest Georgia shows a failure of planning
When I was about nine years old, I remember riding in the car along Pine Chapel Road in Gordon County, Georgia, and seeing tanker trucks spraying sludge across pastures while cattle stood nearby.
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Times Opinion: Health care is the way for Democrats to win
When someone is sick in this country, they don't ask for a politician. They ask for a doctor, a nurse or a therapist — a frontline health care worker. They look for someone they trust.
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Times Opinion: The U.S. must not become a nation of emigrants
Since its earliest days, the U.S. has been a nation of immigrants. Increasingly, it's also a nation of emigrants — a trend that should alarm elected officials and spur them to act.
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Times Opinion: Bomb first, debate later — The hidden cost of how America makes war now
For those old enough to remember the first Gulf War, the scenes feel painfully familiar: Smoke rising over Tehran. Babies carried out of a bombed-out hospital in incubators. Missiles striking cities across the Middle East.
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Times Opinion: Flying is abysmal and it’s only getting worse
A couple of years ago, a reporter asked Blackpool FC manager Mick McCarthy about his team's terrible form, saying, "It can't go on like this, can it?" The Irishman took a beat, smiled grimly and said, "It can."
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Times Opinion: On health’s side — Court vaccine victory protects babies, but RFK still dangerous
Thank goodness that Boston federal Judge Brian Murphy has stopped some of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine insanity, reversing the Health and Human Services secretary's dangerous and destructive effort to drop hepatitis A, hepatitis B, RSV, dengue and two strains of meningitis from recommended immunizations for infants.
