Reihan Salam writes on politics, culture, and technology, and was previously an associate editor at The Atlantic, a producer for NBC News, a junior editor and editorial researcher at The New York Times, a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a reporter-researcher at The New Republic. He is the co-author of Grand New Party: How Conservatives Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream (Doubleday, 2008). He writes regularly for National Review, Forbes.com, The Daily Beast, Slate, Foreign Policy and other publications, and he is the editor of The American Scene.

As a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation, Mr. Salam writes on how radical technological advances are changing the way we live and think, and in particular how the advent of machine intelligence and the ongoing genomics revolution will shape our understanding of democracy and equality. He is also interested in the evolution of warfare and crime, participatory culture, regulatory policy, migration, and the future of the welfare state.