Times Commentary
The latest Times Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
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Opinion: Only US pressure can turn Gaza ceasefire into real peace
More than two years after they were seized by Hamas militants in the brutal Oct. 7 attacks, the 20 remaining living Israeli hostages have finally been released. U.S. pressure made the breakthrough possible. It will be just as vital to reaching a longer-lasting peace.
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Opinion: Voting Rights Act uses race merely to remedy proven racial discrimination
If the U. S. Supreme Court strikes down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act after hearing oral arguments on Wednesday, it will surely devastate minority voting rights.
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Opinion: How a Trump judge exposed the Trump con
This month, a federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump in 2019 did the worst thing you can do to Trump in a court of law: She took him seriously.
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Opinion: First Amendment crisis plagues U.S., but Americans must fight back or else
Not long after Donald Trump donned the mantle of the presidency for his second term of office, I was reminded of something President Franklin D. Roosevelt said during his State of the Union Address in 1939 with war looming in Europe.
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Opinion: Trump disgraces American justice
President Donald Trump is once again weaponizing the legal system to fulfill his personal vendettas.
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Opinion: George Washington would be spinning in his grave
Mount Vernon is 21 miles from my home. Lately I can almost feel the tremors from the nation's general-turned-first-president spinning in his grave there.
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Opinion: If Trump brings war to Chicago streets, chaos will come for us all
Last Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump escalated his war of words with Democratic officials in Illinois with a Truth Social post stating: "Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!"
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Opinion: McCarthyism in a MAGA hat?
Bettina Aptheker was a 20-year-old sophomore at UC Berkeley when she climbed on top of a police car, barefoot so she wouldn't damage it, and helped start the Free Speech Movement.
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Opinion: From World War II to now, what have we learned?
What times are these? My 81 years of life have never seen times like Americans are living through now.
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Opinion: Trump 2.0 is America’s worst moments redux
One way to look at much of the second Trump administration is that it is a recapitulation of some of the worst episodes in the history of the United States.
