Times Commentary
The latest Times Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
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Opinion: Constitution demands protecting birthright citizenship
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a single federal judge could not issue a nationwide injunction on a case related to the constitutional right of birthright citizenship that the Trump administration is trying to end, the justices made an exception for class action cases.
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Opinion: The GOP’s Medicaid cuts have a very convenient timeline
When President Donald Trump signed his tax bill into law, he acknowledged it included deep spending cuts but suggested people "won't even notice it."
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Opinion: What Congress needs to know about DEI (but doesn’t want to hear)
The House Oversight Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services held a hearing recently about diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Opinion: Trump’s cabinet of incompetents
It was a Jack Nicholson-Tom Cruise moment. President Donald Trump couldn't handle the truth. He didn't even know the truth. And he has no respect for truth, so even if he knew, why would he tell the truth about the truth?
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Opinion: Another day, another chatbot’s Nazi meltdown
On Tuesday, when an account on the social platform X using the name Cindy Steinberg started cheering the Texas floods because the victims were “white kids” and “future fascists,” Grok — the social media platform’s in-house chatbot — tried to figure out who was behind the account.
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Opinion: Deep in a fiscal hole, Congress just keeps digging
In a remarkable achievement, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act got worse with each iteration before finally being enacted.
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Opinion: How Trump is purging and purifying the GOP
Forget the doomsday predictions about what President Donald Trump's cuts might do — his "Big Beautiful Bill" has already notched its first major casualty: Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican.
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Opinion: Golden age for disease: RFK presides over rampant measles
Proving once again that anti-vax quack Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a threat to public health, confirmed measles cases in the United States have hit a 33-year high.
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Opinion: Oh please, the right is reviving a tired trope about women
Here we go again.
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Opinion: Stone Mountain is going ‘woke,’ rebel sons complain
The new museum being built at Stone Mountain Park is set to do a little truth-telling.