Times Commentary
The latest Times Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
More in Times Commentary, page 64
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Opinion: Republicans want to make health insurance more expensive
President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are vigorously fighting for a world where your health care costs more, covers less and gives even greater power to private insurance companies.
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Opinion: Trump wants the American people to pay him $230 million
President Donald Trump has demanded that the Department of Justice prosecute his political enemies.
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Opinion: To Trump, white is so beautiful
For President Donald Trump, white is beautiful.
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Opinion: Complacency breeds fear, then tyranny
So many challenges are facing Chattanoogans and other American citizens.
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Opinion: No Kings Day gives voice to the people
Driving down Market Street on No Kings Day was a lesson in peaceful protesting.
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Opinion: Trump revives foreign aid, helping needy billionaires
Reporting on the world can be heartbreaking.
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Opinion: ‘No Kings’ means no kings. No wonder Trump hates it.
On Saturday, between 5 million and 7 million people assembled on streets, sidewalks and town squares across the country — in "red" states and in "blue" — to protest against President Donald Trump and his administration, in what may have been the largest single-day demonstration in American history.
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Opinion: What makes this shutdown so different
During the 2013 government shutdown I happened to be in Philadelphia, and I was surprised to find that the Liberty Bell — which sits in its own little room with big windows — was "closed." You could stand there and look at it, but only through tourist-smudged glass.
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Opinion: How do you know when you’ve become an autocracy?
Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let's put "democracy" at one end of a spectrum and "autocracy" at the other and consider the bright line that separates them.
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Opinion: Trump’s lust for desecration
This weekend, I was surprised to learn that Donald Trump seems to see himself in the same way I do: as a would-be monarch spraying the citizenry with excrement.
