Opinion: Get serious about equity or punt on progress
In all of the challenges facing our city — affordable housing, education, health care and living wage jobs — the lack of equity underpins them all. Disparities…
Times Editorials
-
![]()
-
![]()
Opinion: There’s a bomb under the table
Alfred Hitchcock explained the nature of cinematic terror with a story about the bomb under the table. People are sitting around a table having a mundane conve…
-
![]()
Opinion: Farewell to George Santos, the perfect MAGA Republican
Should the blessed day ever arrive when Donald Trump is sent to federal prison, only one of his acolytes has earned the right to share his cell: George Santos,…
-
![]()
Opinion: Gov. Bill Lee’s school voucher program prioritizes privilege over equity
Public education is a right in this country. It is not a means to keep the privileged class in privilege. And yet that is exactly what Republican Gov. Bill Lee…
-
![]()
Opinion: Buyer beware on ‘health care sharing ministries’
Open enrollment is the window of time at the year's end when consumers make a critical health care decision — which health insurance plan to buy for the coming…
-
![]()
Opinion: LeBron’s Looks: Good riddance, George Santos
After the third expulsion vote, Rep. George Santos, R-New York, was ousted from Congress on Friday after a House Ethics Committee report showed Santos' misuse …
-
![]()
Opinion: ‘That’s a lie!’ ‘You are just jabbering!’ It was heat and not much light in Newsom-DeSantis debate
The prodigiously hyped debate between Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis was never going to be more than a diversion, a brief sideshow running parallel to the main …
-
![]()
Opinion: Another court decision weakens the Voting Rights Act. Will the Supreme Court right this wrong?
A federal appeals court panel handed down a decision last week that would hobble enforcement of the Voting Rights Act by holding that only the U.S. attorney ge…
-
![]()
Opinion: The Trump ballot battle: If the 14th Amendment doesn’t block him, voters must
A Denver state judge, Sarah B. Wallace of the 2nd Judicial District Court, was asked if candidate Donald Trump can appear on the Colorado Republican primary ba…
-
![]()
Opinion: Guilty plea of Highland Park, Illinois, shooting suspect’s father should be a wake-up call for parents
Robert Crimo Jr.'s guilty plea to reckless conduct for helping his son obtain authorization to own firearms three years before Robert Crimo III allegedly opene…
-
![]()
Opinion: Florida vs. California fight comes down to … pick your poison. Here’s why
Which one is better: Florida or California?
-
![]()
Opinion: Why Chattanooga must shift to a pedestrian-focused community
Flowers lay against the boarded-up wall that now covers a Chattanooga gift shop at the corner of Frazier and Forest avenues on the North Shore.
-
![]()
Opinion: Nikki Haley is coming for your retirement
Both conventional wisdom and prediction markets say that Donald Trump has a virtual lock on the Republican presidential nomination.
-
![]()
Opinion: Why the next seven weeks are so critical in the race for president
The period between Thanksgiving and the first presidential primaries and caucuses in January and February is typically full of flux and ferment. The contenders…
-
![]()
Opinion: Human brains aren’t wired to fight climate change
Humans are very likely the only species that can imagine very distant futures. Unfortunately, our brains aren't wired to behave in a way that optimizes those f…
