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Through the years, state parks officials have gradually reduced acreage open to off-highway vehicles as recreation advocates and environmentalists have debated how much protection the birds need.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

Lawmakers could have debated and voted during the USS Gerald R. Ford’s long journey across the Atlantic, but they were a day late and a dollar short.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Since 1945, historians have debated to what extent Naruhito's late grandfather Hirohito was responsible for Imperial Japan's war of aggression in Asia.

From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026

For years, astronomers have debated the nature of a bright object known as Fomalhaut b, first reported in 2008 just outside the star's main dust belt.

From Science Daily • Jan. 1, 2026

And since Las Casas historians, clerics, and political activists have debated whether Europeans and their descendants in the Americas are morally culpable for the enormous Indian losses.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann