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  "publishedAt": "2026-07-03T11:30:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.motherjones.com",
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  "textContent": "On a glorious morning walk about a week before America’s 250th birthday, I was listening to Jon Stewart’s podcast on that theme. I recommend it. One of the things he discusses with his historian guests, Yale’s David Blight and Harvard’s Annette Gordon-Reed, is the Declaration of Independence, which both historians called a “dangerous document” in […]",
  "title": "America is 250 Years Old. Have You Ever Read the Declaration of Independence?"
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