Reihan Salam

"America is doing a really bad job relative to other countries," said Reihan Salam, a fellow at the New America Foundation, referring to the well-being of US children. According to the CWI, although the recession is predicted to end in 2010, ...

Virtually all the progress made in children's well-being since 1975 - particularly the improvements of the 1990s -- will be wiped out by the current recession, according to a report released on Wed., June 3, 2009 at the New America Foundation.

The supposed "battle" over the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor is in truth a political sideshow, one that is briefly distracting the public from real debates over the future of our badly broken health care system. While I'm quite sure that Newt Gingrich and Tom Tancredo and Rush Limbaugh sincerely believe that Sotomayor is a dangerous racist, most Americans, including most Republicans, would find the idea more than a little eccentric.

Provided we don't discover conclusive evidence that Sonia Sotomayor is a Soviet sleeper agent dedicated to the violent overthrow of America's system of constitutional government, she will be confirmed as an associate justice to the Supreme Court. Rather than stop Sotomayor, the Republican Party needs to lay the groundwork for Obama's next Supreme Court appointment by testing effective lines of attack.

Reihan Salam, a fellow at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute in Washington, he's also the co-author of the book "Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream. ...

When Jack Kemp died earlier in May, the self-described "bleeding-heart conservative" was celebrated for his efforts to expand the Republican party.

Reihan Salam, co-author of "Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream" was online Wednesday, May 20 at 2 pm ET to take your questions about the party's efforts to find a winning identity. ...

After the Clintons’ political machine was brought down by a gang of earnest teens and Democratic outsiders, many Americans breathed a sigh of relief. Then, the Kennedys were socked in the jaw when Caroline was deemed, in humiliatingly public fashion, not ready for prime time. The age of dynastic politics was over. But then we remember that Caroline was spurned by David Paterson, himself the heir to a Harlem political dynasty. And Paterson will get his comeuppance next year, when… more

By nominating Jon Huntsman Jr. of Utah to be the next ambassador to China, the Obama White House has dealt Republicans a serious blow. Along with Mark Sanford of South Carolina and various 2008 also-rans, Huntsman has widely been seen as a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. And now he's taken himself out of contention, eliminating one of Obama's most politically gifted potential rivals.

At the end of his wry speech to the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, President Barack Obama expressed sympathy and solidarity with the assembled journalists, noting that the American news business is in dire shape and that it serves a vital function. And of course the journalists, no strangers to self-importance, were flattered and grateful. Obama is a shrewd politician, and he knows his audience.