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But, as The Daily Beast's Reihan Salam noted, Petraeus's media appearances underlined just how difficult and thankless his job in Afghanistan is. ...

But it also echoes wider economic anxieties; as Reihan Salam argued recently in an article in Foreign Policy magazine entitled “The Death of Macho”, the global financial crisis has not only done away with “the macho men’s club called finance capitalism” but, ...

Where McGinn is measured and thoughtful about swearing at work, New America Foundation Fellow Reihan Salam, writing about Goldman Sachs's profanity ...

At the end of June, the House of Representatives voted to extend the $8,000 homebuyers' tax credit, by an extraordinary margin of 409-5. The Senate approved the measure on a voice vote. At a polarized political moment, this near unanimity was noteworthy in itself. Conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats, from cities and suburbs and small towns across the country, joined together to shower a bit more taxpayer largesse on one of America's favorite industries: real estate. But there's a problem with this bipartisan idyll.

New America's Reihan Salam joins panelists on ABC News' This Week to discuss Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the U.S.

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The American jobs machine is broken. That much isn't in dispute. The June labor market report saw the creation of a paltry 83,000 private sector jobs. Over the same four weeks, an extraordinary 652,000 people left the workforce, swelling the ranks of the discouraged. Millions of potential workers are living on the margins of the mainstream economy. And this sad fact isn't just a product of our recent economic woes.

Reihan Salam, a writer for the conservative National Review and the son of Bangladeshi immigrants, disputes the impression of tokenism. He argues it is a grassroots phenomenon: Asians who have immigrated to small or rural areas, for example, are likely to share their neighbours' conservative values....

In David Kirkpatrick's brilliant new book The Facebook Effect he describes how a handful of bright college kids created one of the world's most successful consumer Internet companies. But, in a way, Facebook itself isn't the interesting story. Kirkpatrick describes how Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his friend and collaborator Adam D'Angelo devoted considerable time developing a file-sharing service called Wirehog, which they envisioned as an application that would run on what they began envisioning as the Facebook platform.

Coastal animals covered in oily filth have given us a visceral sense of what the BP oil disaster means for our natural environment. The more disturbing news is that this oil spill represents a drop in the bucket--a small fraction of the petroleum that enters the world's oceans every year.

The decades-long struggle between Israel and the Palestinians is not the world's bloodiest ongoing conflict. And unlike the fight for Kashmir or the slow-motion collapse of North Korea, it doesn't threaten to escalate into nuclear war. But it has nevertheless seized the imagination of millions. Across the Arab and Muslim world, the conflict is seen as an unambiguous morality play, with brutal Zionists cast in the role of villains.

In late March a South Korean naval vessel, the Cheonan, was destroyed, almost certainly by North Korean saboteurs. Given that North Korea, a vast Stalinist gulag masquerading as country, depends on the generosity of South Korea and the international community for its very survival, the brazenness of the attack defied logic.

Last month's jobs report was a head-scratcher, at least on the surface. After adding roughly 290,000 jobs, the unemployment rate actually inched up to 9.9%. The reason is actually fairly simple. The unemployment rate only captures the number of people who are active job-seekers. In a deep downturn there are many workers so discouraged by the state of the labor market that they choose not to pound the pavement in search of jobs that will never materialize. But when the economy perks up it's only natural that more of these would-be workers become active job-seekers.