Reihan Salam
He is the author of Melting Pot or Civil War? and a co-author of Grand New Party. Salam was formerly the executive editor of National Review, a contributing editor at National Affairs, a Slate columnist, and a National Review Institute policy fellow.
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Photo-illustration by the Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Fiscal Choice the GOP Needs to Make
Can Republicans find a way to reduce deficits without raising taxes on the middle class?
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Jeff Swensen / Getty Searching for a Conservatism of Normalcy
Why Trump’s Republican rivals need a compelling ideological thesis
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Iiievgeniy / Getty Supply-Side Progressivism Has a Fatal Flaw
Advocates of the market-based approach seem to have misunderstood the nature of their political coalition.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty We’re Underfunding the Police
Improving our criminal-justice system means spending the requisite money to address America’s horrific and long-standing problem with criminal violence.
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Genna Martin / San Francisco Chronicle / AP Conservatives Can Win By Embracing ‘Selectionism’
Immigration doesn’t have to spell demographic doom for Republicans.
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The Atlantic America Needs Anti-Racialism
Both anti-racists and anti-racialists want racial progress, but they have a drastically different understanding of what it looks like.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantilc How to Fix H.R. 1
The current bill lacks robust support—and its measures might create new problems.
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Octavio Jones / Getty Is America’s Educational System Becoming More Pluralistic?
The past year has produced a cross-class coalition for educational choice that reaches deep into the suburbs.
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters Why Conservatives Are Turning Against Higher Education
College isn’t providing an effective engine of upward mobility for most Americans.
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Scott Morgan / Reuters Governors Are Losing the Space to Govern
As the bulk of state spending shifts toward mandatory programs, experimentation is grinding to a halt in the laboratories of democracy.
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Jeenah Moon / Reuters New York’s Socialist Revolution Isn’t What It Seems
The success of left-wing candidates in the Empire State has less to do with their ideas than with the decline of the Republican Party.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Los Angeles Is in Crisis. So Why Isn’t It Building More Housing?
Rising rents are feeding a surge in homelessness.
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Edgar Su / Reuters The Age of ‘Chimerica’ Is Coming to an End
By cutting off Huawei from U.S. technology, the Trump administration is forever changing the relationship between the world’s largest economies.
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Amit Dave / Reuters Modi's New Challenge Is Embracing Urbanization
His expansion of welfare benefits has won him votes from rural citizens—but if he wants to build a “new India,” he must focus on cities.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump’s Immigration Proposal Is a Step in the Right Direction
Rebalancing admissions, rather than reducing them, could turn a divisive issue into a unifying one for the GOP.
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Ben Brewer / Reuters Beto O’Rourke Was Right, and Democrats Might Not Forgive Him
As the Democratic Party shifts leftward, can primary voters look past the candidate’s fiscal responsibility?
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Will Burgess / Reuters What Fiji Can Teach America About Immigration
Many people will invest in their own skills if they know that doing so will give them a shot at a better life overseas.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Trouble With Elizabeth Warren’s Child-Care Plan
The presidential candidate’s proposal risks accelerating the very trends she once warned against.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Gavin Newsom’s Big Idea
The California governor is pulling the plug on a boondoggle and focusing on a plan that could secure the future of his state.
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AP Trump’s Revealing Immigration Ad Lib
Is the president ready to strike a compromise deal?
