Times Commentary
The latest Times Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
More in Times Commentary, page 95
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Opinion: Trump’s revenge tour finds its true target
It is almost as if he wants to inflict pain not just on a specific set of individuals but on the entire nation
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Opinion: Which hill should Democrats choose to die on?
Steve Bannon's flood-the-zone strategy is a handy way to understand President Donald Trump's first six weeks in office.
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Opinion: Even Steve Bannon knows cutting Medicaid is a mega-risk
Republicans are taking a huge political gamble as they try to find money for tax cuts by threatening to slash Medicaid, which covers more than 72 million people across the country — about one in four Americans overall, and about half of all children.
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Opinion: The Right’s Trump Derangement Syndrome
Shortly before the last election, Scott Bessent, now President Donald Trump's Treasury secretary, assured The Financial Times that Trump had no interest in reducing international trade and that his threats to impose sweeping, 20% tariffs on foreign goods were simply a "maximalist" negotiating position to be watered down during trade talks, Bessent said.
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Opinion: Trump’s balanced budget pledge to Congress is fantasy. Tax cuts will mean huge deficit
In Donald Trump's speech, personalities loomed large.
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Opinion: Bill to bar Tennessee immigrants from filing civil lawsuits sets stage for exploitation
In 2008, Juana Villegas — nine months pregnant and with her two of her children in the car — was pulled over for a routine traffic violation.
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Opinion: This has never happened with an American president before
What happened in the Oval Office on Friday – the obviously planned ambush of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance – was something that had never happened in the nearly 250-year history of this country.
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Opinion: Restoring old names to military installations does more harm than good
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's order to restore the name of the U.S. Army's special forces base near Fayetteville, N.C., to Fort Bragg would be amusing if it weren't a waste of tax dollars and, ultimately, destructive to the military's mission.
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Opinion: Some of DOGE’s damage can’t be undone
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is sowing confusion and chaos, ordering mass firings of government employees and canceling programs despite having no formal legal authority.
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Opinion: Andrew Tate, accused of sex trafficking, is Trump’s kind of guy
On Thursday the influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, until recently stuck in Romania amid an investigation into allegations including human trafficking and money laundering, arrived in Florida, apparently thanks to the good offices of Donald Trump's administration.
