Times Commentary
The latest Times Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
More in Times Commentary, page 467
-
Ignatius: Our stake in the future and the past
WASHINGTON -- Why should people care about the past or the future? That may sound like a perverse question, but it's at the center of two recent stories -- one involving the Islamic State's destruction of antiquities at Palmyra in Syria, and the other a presidential warning about damage to the planet decades hence.
-
Dionne: Iran and the case for realism
WASHINGTON -- Foreign policy debates rarely get away from being reflections of domestic political conflicts, but they are also usually based on unstated assumptions and unacknowledged theories.
-
Fisher: New public records fees would choke off citizen oversight
Should the Tennessee Public Records Act permit the government to charge citizens to inspect public records? A series of public meetings across the state next month will allow citizens to voice their opinions on this question.
-
Ignatius: On eve of Xi’s U.S. visit, China loses some luster
WASHINGTON -- When U.S. policymakers began planning Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington next month, they must have imagined that the Chinese president would be arriving, figuratively, in a gleaming aircraft carrier with his trademark "Chinese Dream" banners flying.
-
Ignatius: The ‘Division 30’ debacle
WASHINGTON -- America's botched effort last month to support a Syrian moderate rebel group known as "Division 30" was a chain of errors that recalls, in a small way, the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco.
-
Dionne: All votes matter
WASHINGTON -- Many find politics frustrating because problems that seemed to be solved in one generation crop up again years or decades later. The good thing about democracy is that there are no permanent defeats. The hard part is that some victories have to be won over and over.
-
Ignatius: Trump, an American Putin?
WASHINGTON -- He promises to restore his country's greatness, without offering a specific plan.
-
Dionne: When Yeats comes knocking
WASHINGTON -- W. B. Yeats' "The Second Coming," written in 1919, is my nominee for the most cited poem in political commentary.
-
Dionne: Jeb Bush’s brotherly wager
WASHINGTON - Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton have a shared interest: Each wants to act as if the primaries are over and that the general-election campaign - between, each hopes, the two of them - is already underway.
-
Dionne: Obama vs. the cavaliers of unilateralism
WASHINGTON -- If you wondered why President Obama gave such a passionate and, yes, partisan speech on behalf of the Iran nuclear deal last Wednesday, all you had to do was tune in to the Republican presidential debate the next night.