Times Commentary
The latest Times Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
More in Times Commentary, page 86
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Opinion: The hidden moral cost of America’s tariff crisis
In the spring of 2025, as American families struggle with unprecedented consumer costs, we find ourselves at a point of "moral reckoning."
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Opinion: Musk’s AI ‘Colossus’ in Memphis is everyone’s problem
Build a massive supercomputer housed in a plant powered by methane gas-burning turbines that emit an undisclosed amount of pollutants into a disadvantaged community. Obtain no environmental permits. Ask permission later.
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Opinion: RFK is weaponizing junk science to undermine abortion rights
As many states continue their fractious political battles over the issue of reproductive rights, a Trump administration project is threatening to undermine those rights nationally.
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Opinion: Trump is waging war on the future
It's fitting that a political movement whose slogan is the backward-looking "Make America Great Again" — and whose tribune, Donald Trump, appears to live in an eternal 1990 of his own mind — is waging war on the American future.
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Opinion: MAHA is pushing glucose tracking that most people don’t need
Casey Means, a Stanford-trained physician and wellness influencer nominated by President Donald Trump for surgeon general, is convinced the U.S. is experiencing an epidemic of metabolic dysfunction — a crisis silently unfolding inside the cells of millions of Americans.
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Opinion: Voice of America made the US a superpower. Now Trump has surrendered
Before I became an American citizen, I knew America.
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Opinion: The old model of billionaire philanthropy is ending
Bill Gates is an optimist.
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Opinion: The GOP’s tax bill is exactly wrong for this economic moment
There are two distinct threats to the U.S. economy of 2025.
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Opinion: They were waiting for Trump all along
Of the endless torrent of illegal, unconstitutional — and anti-constitutional — actions flowing from the Trump administration, there are three that stand out for their contempt for the rule of law.
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Opinion: Project 2025: Anti-abortion blueprint quietly taking hold
While the national spotlight often falls on state-level abortion bans or Supreme Court rulings, a quieter but more transformative effort is underway in Washington.
