This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and

around the world. I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live from New York.

Today on the show, President Biden's ambitious policy pushes have garnered comparisons to FDR

and LBJ. Are those analogies apt? Where will this round of progressivism go? In 50 years,

people are going to look back and say, this was the moment that America won the future.

I'll ask historians John Meacham and Neil Ferguson.

Also, the World Health Organization's controversial report on the origins of COVID,

the US and 13 nations express concern about the paper, complaining that the investigators

lack access to crucial information. I will talk to one of those investigators, the virus hunter,

Peter Daschik. And what in the world happened to Germany? In the first wave, it controlled COVID

remarkably well, among the best in the West. Now, Angela Merkel admits they have lost control.

I will explore the fate of Miss Merkel and her nation.

But first, here's my take. While Donald Trump claimed he wanted to make America great again,

President Biden is attempting to actually do it. Trump slogan got Americans thinking nostalgically

about the 1950s and early 1960s when the US dominated the world and its economy produced rising

wages for workers and executives alike. A defining feature of those years was federal investment in

infrastructure, scientific research and education. By contrast, Washington in recent years

has mostly spent money to fund private consumption by giving people tax cuts or transfer payments.

Biden's infrastructure bill is the first major fiscal program in five decades to focus once

again on investment. When you look at federal spending as a whole, it seems to have risen significantly

over the last few decades. But the composition of that spending tells the real story. Most of that

increase is due to sharp rises in entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid. Core investment

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