Opinion: America is still a work in progress

America has long inspired poets — Walt Whitman celebrated its vastness, Langston Hughes its contradictions. In an essay for NPR, Scott Simon reflects on how these voices remind us that America isn't a finished project. It's a nation still being written, still becoming. On Independence Day, that unfinished work might be its greatest strength.

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