Times Commentary
The latest Times Commentary coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Opinion section.
More in Times Commentary, page 97
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Opinion: Why Trump’s bullying is going to backfire
The scariest thing about what President Donald Trump is doing with his tariffs-for-all strategy, I believe, is that he has no clue what he is doing — or how the world economy operates, for that matter.
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Opinion: The Gulf formerly known as Mexico
What's in a name? Evidently, quite a lot.
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Opinion: The Republican Party’s NPC problem — and ours
A few years back, the online right became enamored of a new epithet for liberals: "NPC," short for "nonplayer character."
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Opinion: Americans would pay higher taxes to save Social Security
Social Security's deep popularity among voters has earned it a reputation as the third rail of politics, meaning Congress is afraid to touch it.
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Opinion: Trump’s Gaza proposal — and the Madman Theory
Is Trump's Gaza suggestion that he intends to relocate the Palestinian population from Gaza and turn the region into "the Riviera of the Middle East" an example of the "Madman Theory" or is it a negotiation tactic?
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Opinion: Signposts on the road to authoritarian rule
If one were to design a path to authoritarian rule, it would be what we have seen in the first weeks of the Trump administration.
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Opinion: Can we please stop calling these people populists?
Over the past 20 years or so many of us social observer types have been writing about the horrific chasms separating the educated class (people with college degrees) from the working class (people without).
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Opinion: Trump’s Gaza plan is a crazy answer to a valid question
President Donald Trump's plan to take over the Gaza Strip, remove its 2 million Palestinians and turn the coastal desert strip into some sort of Club Med proves only one thing: how short a distance it is between out-of-the-box thinking and out-of-your-mind thinking.
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Local History: Cherokee resist but ultimately face removal
The late Dr. James Livingood, distinguished University of Tennessee at Chattanooga professor of history, discussed the Cherokee removal in excerpts from his "Chattanooga: Illustrated History":
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Opinion: Trump wants to extend the 2017 tax cuts. Here’s how that would affect regular Americans
The tax cuts enacted under the first Trump administration largely expire at the end of 2025.
