Times Commentary
The latest Times Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
More in Times Commentary, page 93
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Opinion: Capitulation to Trump spells inordinate danger
We all learned long ago, perhaps on the playground, that giving in to a bully only makes things worse.
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Opinion: America’s silence — Voice of America goes off air at Trump’s direction
President Donald Trump's silencing of the Voice of America serves him two ways: Attacking the media and doing a favor for dictators around the world he so admires.
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Opinion: The United States careens toward a constitutional crisis
Congress is cowed; that's one supposedly coequal branch of government down.
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Opinion: Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act challenges role of the courts
The fight in Federal Judge James Boasberg's D.C. courtroom over whether President Donald Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to summarily fly Venezuelan immigrants to a Salvadoran mega-prison without trial or charge is a fight over the strength of our constitutional system.
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Opinion: America is aggravating the world’s worst humanitarian crisis
The world's worst humanitarian crisis today is probably the web of famine, civil war, mass rape and other atrocities in Sudan, a nightmare that the United States has formally described as genocide.
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Opinion: Trump has gone from unconstitutional to anti-Constitutional
Most of us know what it means for something to be unconstitutional.
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Opinion: COVID anniversary finds a fractured nation less prepared for future outbreaks
It's been five years since the world came to a sudden halt.
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Opinion: Why owning a home just got more expensive – The hidden cost of Trump’s tariffs
Homeownership will be more expensive, and a major cause is President Donald Trump's new tariffs on building materials.
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Opinion: Democracy is on the line in Israel and America
Are we seeing the slow-motion collapse of the rule of law in the United States and Israel at the same time? It is too early to answer that question, but it is no longer too early to ask it.
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Opinion: The U.S. has a long history of bad peace deals
A truce is always better than no truce, and that includes the ceasefire which Ukraine, after discussions with the United States in Saudi Arabia, says it's ready to comply with, provided that Russia does so too.
