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Europe is not doing great. @TylerCowen sums up why Europe’s quality of life has fallen so much in the past 40 years. Read his piece in @TheFP: thefp.com/p/i-once-thoug…

“What is the point of making money if you don’t have the country to make it in?” writes @2112Power. Reindustrialization isn’t nostalgia—it’s national security. thefp.com/p/america-wont…

It’s rare for the president to lose control of the narrative, but he did last week, writes Matthew Continetti. thefp.com/p/will-trump-l…

“If we went to war with China today… the U.S. would run out of critical munitions in seven days,” writes @2112Power. We don’t just lack stockpiles—we lack the ability to rebuild. That’s the real danger, Chris Power argues. thefp.com/p/america-wont…

“In the late stages of dominance, comfort replaces urgency,” writes @2112Power. We think we’re still in our prime. But like every great power before us, we’ve traded resilience for convenience. thefp.com/p/america-wont…

America may be winning on software. But software isn’t enough to win the future. We need manufacturers—like the ones I met last week, writes Batya Ungar-Sargon. thefp.com/p/here-come-th…

“You cannot have a great civilization without the ability to make things,” writes @2112Power. Manufacturing isn’t just economic—it’s existential. America’s industrial base built its global power. Without it, that power fades. thefp.com/p/america-wont…

Polling expert @GalenDruke: “Everyone has already tacitly acknowledged that the Democratic Party’s positions in 2020 were unpopular—decriminalizing border crossings, defunding the police, abolishing ICE… People like AOC… know that the left part of the Democratic Party lost the…

How does the Democratic Party find its way out of the wilderness? “In some ways, it’s following the Donald Trump 2016 blueprint,” says polling expert @GalenDruke. “Take a left position on some things, a more right position on others… On election day in 2016, [Trump] was seen…

Polling expert @GalenDruke: “Trump was so anti-establishment that Democrats found themselves becoming the cheerleaders for the establishment—because that was the anti-Trump position. And so this party that had been consistently nominating successful, less pro-establishment…

Congratulations. @TheFP keeps adding the best people. It’s indispensable for honest reporting between the 30-year lines.

Watching @NellieBowles and @katrosenfield talking Coldplay kiss cam now: thefp.com/livestream

Every great power lost its dominance when it gave up its industrial edge. The U.S. must act now to avoid the same fate, writes Chris Power for The Free Press. thefp.com/p/america-wont…

Enormously proud of the growing Free Press team in Jerusalem: @MattiFriedman and @havivrettiggur . . . !

A superb addition to the expanding team at @TheFP, and good news for anyone looking for smart and sane analysis from Israel:

“What happens in the Middle East doesn’t seem to stay there… And yet, the Middle East is not well understood in the West.” Israeli journalist @HavivRettigGur on why he decided to join The Free Press. Learn more—and subscribe today: thefp.pub/4lE09GT