Times Commentary
The latest Times Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
More in Times Commentary, page 89
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Opinion: In 100 days, Trump Cabinet members confirm concerns
President Donald Trump's first 100 days have confirmed the initial concerns about some of his most high-profile appointees. Another failed to meet more hopeful expectations.
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Opinion: Polling poorly: Trump’s immigration abuses are tanking his popular approval
In his 10 years as a presidential contender Donald Trump has always benefited politically by attacking immigrants, winning support for his promises of a hardline border crackdown.
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Opinion: Trump’s vicious sewing circle
Amid an economic catastrophe President Donald Trump personally caused, a startling new Times/Siena poll found him underwater, even on immigration, as voters have recoiled at the very thing the president loves: his overreaching.
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Opinion: The quiet death of dissent
There is something particularly American about the way we're dismantling our democracy these days — we are doing it with paperwork.
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Opinion: Trump wants you to think resistance is futile. It is not.
The American constitutional system is built on the theory that the self-interest of lawmakers can be as much of a defense against tyranny as any given law or institution.
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Opinion: Trump’s first 100 days: consequential change for the worse
The first 100 days of President Donald Trump's second term have brought the most consequential changes in the federal government since Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal nearly a century ago, along with an all-out effort to curb the nation's major independent institutions — the courts, law firms, academia and the press.
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Opinion: Trump is killing life-saving health research
As a virologist and a former associate director of the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania, I observed firsthand the development of various treatments and cures — a process that is complex, sometimes frustrating and often exhilarating.
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Opinion: It’s time to retire the slur of DEI
When a bridge collapsed in Baltimore in March 2024, Mayor Brandon Scott was derided as a "DEI Mayor," a reference to diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Opinion: Brace yourself. Trump’s trade war with China will get even uglier
Voters elected Donald Trump in part because they wanted a fighter.
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Opinion: America must resist Trump’s total control
"No king in America," said the hand-lettered signs at protests across the nation last Saturday.
