Times Commentary
The latest Times Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
More in Times Commentary, page 73
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Opinion: The return of loyalty tests and the decline of American democracy
Remember when loyalty oaths were used to ferret out and punish people suspected of being Communists?
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Opinion: This war on expertise thrills America’s enemies
And so the purge continues. Some of us used to think, or hope, that President Donald Trump's campaign of "retribution" would prove brutal but short, leaving American statecraft bruised but functional.
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Opinion: All the things Trump thinks he owns
The White House does not belong to President Donald Trump.
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Opinion: Voodoo plan says whacking 40% of Georgia’s revenue will make it grow
The fellow who wants to shrink government so he can drag it into a bathtub and drown it brought his homicidal plan to Georgia last week.
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Opinion: Is Trump normalizing military occupation of American cities?
President Donald Trump's military interventions in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., foretell his plan for other cities.
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Opinion: The Big Lie is back and coming for American elections
Like most Americans, including White House reporters apparently, I've tuned out Donald Trump's incessant Big Lie that he won the 2020 presidential election — "by a lot."
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Opinion: Russia is happy to wait while Trump flails and fails on Ukraine peace
The Washington President Donald Trump has created is a hall of carnival mirrors where up is down, and you never know just how much reality — and what was once America's basic morality — are being distorted.
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Opinion: Trump’s attempt to make museums submit feels familiar
Before Poland's illiberal Law and Justice party came to power in 2015, the country had been deep in a reckoning over its role in the Holocaust.
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Opinion: Trump’s domestic deployments are dangerous. For the military
One of my life's greatest regrets is that I didn't join the Army sooner. I was commissioned at age 37, late for the military, and I didn't exactly impress my officer basic course instructors with my physical prowess. But I made it through, and I spent eight years in the reserves, with active-duty deployments to Iraq and South Korea.
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Opinion: Georgia counties are dying: Data shows ‘God’s Country’ is hollowing out
Every now and then, you see something that's a holy (smokes!) moment. And an old number-crunching author/researcher named Charles Hayslett provided one this time.
