Times Commentary
The latest Times Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
More in Times Commentary, page 84
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Opinion: Yelling ‘fire’ in Los Angeles doesn’t mean there is one
What's a president to do?
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Opinion: What have we learned since George Floyd’s murder?
Five years is a blink in American history — a nation built on contradiction, striving and unfinished business. It was five years ago that a Minneapolis police officer extinguished the life of George Floyd, and the world has felt the tremors.
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Opinion: Federalizing the state National Guard is a chilling push past the law
The use of the military to quell protests is something associated with dictators in foreign countries, and as of Saturday night, with a president of the United States.
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Opinion: Trump calling troops into Los Angeles is the real emergency
The National Guard is typically brought into American cities during emergencies such as natural disasters and civil disturbances or to provide support during public health crises when local authorities require additional resources or manpower.
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Opinion: The president is playing with fire, which is just how he likes it
It's hard to avoid the conclusion that the Trump administration is spoiling for a fight on America's streets.
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Opinion: Elon Musk is putting the DOGE chain saw down, but the damage has been done
The roughly $100 million SpaceX Starship rocket that blew up recently coincided with Elon Musk's costly flameout overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency.
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Opinion: The ‘Trump Doctrine’ revealed
"I run the country and the world," President Donald Trump boasted to reporters for The Atlantic in April, by way of explaining how his current presidency differs from his first. Even for the clinically braggadocious Trump, that was a mouthful.
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Opinion: Why Medicaid work requirements won’t work
The U.S. labor market is a truly astonishing thing to behold. It includes 171 million Americans, as young as 14 and older than 90, some who never finished elementary school and others with PhDs.
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Opinion: Is civics the new STEM?
In 1957, the United States had its "Sputnik moment."
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Opinion: Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m lying about kids dying under Trump?
I see Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a good man doing bad things, but perhaps he thinks even worse of me: He recently suggested that I was a liar.
