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If you listened to our show yesterday, you already know that this week on The Global Story,
we're taking a step back from the news and bringing you a special series
to mark 250 years since the founding of the United States.
This 250th anniversary is a moment of celebration,
but it's also a moment to reflect on America as a country, as a people, and as an idea.
We're telling the surprising stories of how America has shaped the world,
because after all, we here at The Global Story are a show about where the world and America meet.
And one of the most successful exports the United States has ever sold the world is the American dream,
that tantalizing promise of a better, freer, richer life.
Millions of people have moved to America's shores with the belief that if you work hard, anything is possible.
I did not see America as a place.
I saw it as an idea, the idea of freedom.
But is the American dream fading?