Biden wants to rewrite America’s social contract. He’s right to try.

America needs investment in capital equipment, the smart machines that will maintain U.S. leadership in computing, communications, artificial intelligence and biotechnology. And it’s heartening that this investment is spreading more into red and purple states, as in Apple’s announcement that it’s building a new campus in North Carolina’s Raleigh-Durham area, and expanding in several U.S. locations, including Austin, Texas’s breakout as an information-technology hub.