Presidential pledges to revitalize American manufacturing are one of the few remaining vestiges of bipartisanship in Washington. Joe Biden, not surprisingly, made it a core part of his White House run. Can his administration finally deliver on a promise where previous presidents have fallen short?

When President Donald Trump’s radical supporters stormed the Capitol building last week, attacking police and rampaging through the halls of Congress to hunt for lawmakers, many American news networks were quick to make breathless comparisons to somewhere else—most of all, the Middle East.