Reihan Salam

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Reihan Salam |Charles Lehman

The president won by appealing to strivers, hoping to get rich. His tariffs now threaten that support. In a February interview, Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona observed that when talking with Latino men on the campaign trail, he had been struck by their emphasis on earning money as a source of pride. As he put it in underscoring the point, “Every Latino man wants a big-ass truck.” What more perfect emblem is there for making it in the America of 2025?

2 weeks ago | manhattan.institute | Reihan Salam |Charles Lehman

The president won by appealing to strivers, hoping to get rich. His tariffs now threaten that support. In a February interview, Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona observed that when talking with Latino men on the campaign trail, he had been struck by their emphasis on earning money as a source of pride. As he put it in underscoring the point, “Every Latino man wants a big-ass truck.” What more perfect emblem is there for making it in the America of 2025?

2 weeks ago | manhattan.institute | Reihan Salam |Charles Lehman

The president won by appealing to strivers, hoping to get rich. His tariffs now threaten that support. In a February interview, Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona observed that when talking with Latino men on the campaign trail, he had been struck by their emphasis on earning money as a source of pride. As he put it in underscoring the point, “Every Latino man wants a big-ass truck.” What more perfect emblem is there for making it in the America of 2025?

4 weeks ago | city-journal.org | Reihan Salam

Windsor Terrace is a small, leafy, mostly residential neighborhood in Brooklyn, just south of Park Slope. Having grown up nearby, I’m struck by how little it has changed—and how much. The rowhouses and small apartment buildings look much as I remember them, at least from the outside. The key difference is that Windsor Terrace has grown significantly wealthier. Forty years ago, it was home to working- and middle-class Irish and Italian Catholic families, many of whom had lived there for generations.

Jan 22, 2025 | almendron.com | Reihan Salam

Donald Trump is enjoying a honeymoon. As he wryly observed in December, “[In] the first term, everybody was fighting me. In this term, everybody wants to be my friend.” The president-elect was referring to the ever-growing list of technology CEOs who had made the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago, his Florida home.