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-Was born December 29, 1979 in Manhattan, New York.
-He's the youngest of 3 siblings, with 2 older sisters.
-He was raised in Brooklyn by Muslim, Bangladeshi immigrants.
-He attended Stuyvesant High School and Cornell University before transferring to Harvard.
-In 2001, Salam graudated from Harvard with a B.A. in Social Studies.
-After graduating from Harvard, Reihan worked as a reporter for The New Republic, a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, an editorial researcher at the New York Times, a producer at NBC Universal, and an assoicate editor at The Atlantic.
-In 2008, Salam co-authored his first book "Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream" with Ross Douthat.
-Salam appeared on numerous radio and television shows for many years until he was named executive editor of National Review in 2014.
-In 2018, Salam released his book "Melting Pot or Civil War?; A Son of Immigrants makes the Case Against Open Borders".
-In 2019, Salam became the new president of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

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Reihan Salam (b. December 29, 1979) is the executive editor of National Review and a National Review Institute Policy Fellow. He is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and National Affairs. Salam is the author of Melting Pot or Civil War? (Sentinel, 2018) and the co-author, with Ross Douthat, of Grand New Party (Doubleday, 2008).

Raised by two exceptionally intelligent, kind, and eccentric parents, he was the third of three children, and by all accounts a taciturn shut-in as a small child, primarily interested in LEGO and reruns of Full House. He did, however, sport a stylish bowl cut for most of his youth. Salam's heroes as a small boy were his sisters, various superheroes, and his sisters' high school friends, one of whom was notorious for casually carrying around a machete. His middle sister would regularly send him mixtapes from California, with a heavy emphasis on monologues by Jim Carroll and Jello Biafra and music from the Pharcyde and the Beastie Boys. Basically, she played an essential role in informing and shaping his emerging tastes and sensibilities. His oldest sister sparked his interest in comic books, film, and all things foreign. And though his parents worked near-constantly, they provided the family with a constant stream of magazines, books, and charged conversation about race, culture, politics, and the virtues of a balanced diet.

As a student at Stuyvesant High School, Salam had a checkered academic record, redeemed in part by a mostly untutored intellectual curiosity. Fortunately, his best friend, now a distinguished scholar, shamed him into not actually flunking out by being a pretty amazing example of dedication, creativity, and general excellence.

In an unlikely stroke of luck, he was invited to attend the Telluride Association Summer Program, an experience he credits with "lighting a fire under his ass" and convincing him that the pursuit of academic excellence was not, in fact, "for the birds."

After an intellectually fruitful but socially problematic year at Cornell University, where he'd often spend Friday nights reading biographies of Walter Reuther in the stacks, Salam transferred to Harvard, where he concentrated in Social Studies. His senior thesis, on the normative implications of pervasive public ignorance, was written hastily and under extreme duress, reflecting what was fast becoming a lifelong pattern. His intellectual development was for the most part self-directed, though he profited immensely from having taken two seminars with the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, a fellow Stuyvesant alumnus.

Having graduated in 2001, a year that coincided with what in hindsight looks more and more like a minor economic speed bump, he was quite confident that in lieu of finding suitable employment, he'd become a handsome grifter, roaming the countryside in search of easy marks. The trouble, alas, was the handsome part. And so Salam instead spent a short period of time as a reporter-researcher at The New Republic, influenced in part by his admiration for the work of senior editor and pioneering political blogger Andrew Sullivan. This was followed by a similarly brief stint as a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Shortly after David Brooks had been hired as a columnist at the New York Times, Salam pluckily decided to apply for a position as Brooks's editorial researcher, where he spent the next two years. Having admired Brooks for some years, he was impressed to learn that the newly-minted columnist was exactly as generous, humble, and insightful as he seemed to be from a distance. For a few short months, he served as a junior editor for the New York Times op-ed page before leaving (a bit too abruptly) to become a producer for NBC Universal's The Chris Matthews Show. Roughly two years on, he served for a time as an associate editor at The Atlantic before accepting a fellowship at New America. At some point during this stretch, he decided to start shaving his head, not realizing that this would lead at least some of his detractors to conclude that he was a beardless Barbary corsair hellbent on seizing treasure on the high seas. Salam also co-authored a book, which you can indeed purchase for the astonishingly low price of $0.01, with one of his very good friends, Ross Douthat.

Not long after that, Salam had the good fortune to sign on with National Review. As an editor, he has commissioned articles from libertarian conservatives, cosmopolitan libertarians, centrist neoliberals, national developmentalists, and egalitarian nationalists who hold clashing opinions on taxes, the size of federal expenditures, the virtues of balanced budgets, the regulation of abortion, immigration policy, the regulation of narcotics, gun rights, policing and criminal justice, climate policy, the wisdom of industrial policy, and much else besides.

Though born in New York, NY, at Bellevue Hospital, he spent his formative years in Brooklyn, first in Borough Park and then in the shadowy borderland between Kensington and Ditmas Park. At present, he lives with his wildly talented wife in Park Slope, a short subway ride from where he grew up.

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Reihan Salam (b. December 29, 1979) is the executive editor of National Review and a National Review Institute Policy Fellow. He is a contributing editor at The Atlantic and National Affairs. Salam is the author of Melting Pot or Civil War? (Sentinel, 2018) and the co-author, with Ross Douthat, of Grand New Party (Doubleday, 2008).

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-Reihan Salam wrote this article on October 5, 2015 for the National Review.
-Just over a year before this article was published, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. His death cause a civil unrest which resuled in 16 injured and 321 arrested.
-At around the same time, Eric Garner, an African American man who suffered from asthma, was placed in a chokehold by a NYPD officer. Garner later passed away due to a heart attack, thought to have been caused by the chokehold he was placed in, and was pronounced dead at the hospital one hour after his arrest.
- A year prior to this article being written, Flint, Michigan had a water crisis that lasted 5 years.
-2015 would be the last year of Barack Obama's second term in office.
-In 2015, politicians were announcing their Presidential campaigns for the 2016 election year.

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Encounter between Michael Brown and Ferguson Police was brief

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In "Black and White in Shades of Gray," Reihan Salam assesses the reasons why the United States experimented a rise in "racial pessimism" in a two year period and how he believes Americans should feel about race. Although Salam acknowledges that African American history has been plagued by anti-black racism, he brings up the fact that the amount of African Americans that have left traditionally ghetto communities and integrated in more middle class neighborhoods has increased. Salam argues that although the progress made by African Americans is challenged by anti-blackness, Americans should look to the future with positivity.

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Reihan Salam mentions in his article that "those who want to see racial progress in America ought to celebrate [rising black populations in southern metropolitan areas]" and I actually agree with him. A rising population of a racial demographic in any city has a direct correlation with the political power they yield. Upwards mobility is possible for most all communities in the United States regardless of the nation's racist past. The African American community in particular has endured a lot of racial and economic injustice but neither of those have stopped the community from existing and thriving.