Good ideas no longer die because the loudest person talked over them.
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Lutz Finger,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
Near the end of the debate, co-moderator and San Francisco Examiner editor-in-chief Schuyler Hudak Prionas groaned as candidates talked over each other while trying to answer a question that was supposed to elicit a yes or no response.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2026
The last Senate hearing with sitting justices was in 2011, when former Justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia discussed the constitutional role of the federal judiciary.
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Rena Rowe,
The Washington Examiner,
7 July 2026
Thune, the Senate majority leader, spoke with the Kentucky senator by phone on Monday and discussed national security issues and other topics, a Thune spokesperson told CNBC.
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Kevin Breuninger,Emily Wilkins,
CNBC,
7 July 2026
The Democratic strategists who have chewed over their party’s unpopularity in memo after memo since last November pine for an authentic tribune of the working class.
Georgia’s most influential dishes could be debated vigorously, but there’s no question that food has been an integral part of the South’s culture.
—
Olivia Wakim,
AJC.com,
4 July 2026
Roberts noted that race and citizenship had been fiercely debated in courts, speeches, Congress and battlefields because of Black Americans’ fight for freedom from slavery.
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