# 250 Years Later, Why We’re Still Fighting About Our Founding

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Podcast: [The Daily](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-743229)
Published: 2026-07-03T09:45:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily
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## Resource

With so many prisms through which to see the past, is there a story about the founding of America that can still be unifying?

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